Darknet marketplace “Germany in the Deep Web”
The darknet marketplace “Germany in the Deep Web” was the main point of contact for drug trafficking for several years. Now the alleged operator of the illegal platform has been arrested.
The investigations against the alleged administrator of “Germany in the Deep Web”, a 22-year-old student from Lower Bavaria, are being conducted by the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Bavarian Cybercrime Central Office (ZCB). The arrest took place on Tuesday, October 25, 2022. As part of the police measures, two residential properties were searched with the participation of a public prosecutor from the ZCB and numerous pieces of evidence, including computers, data storage media and mobile phones, were seized. The measures carried out were preceded by months of covert and technically demanding investigations in order to identify and ultimately arrest the suspect, who was operating anonymously on the Darknet.
The “Germany in the Deep Web” darknet marketplace was first published on the Tor network in 2013. In 2016, the perpetrator of the shooting spree in Munich used the platform at the time to obtain the murder weapon and ammunition. As a result, the website was shut down in 2017 by the BKA on behalf of the Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor's Office. The then operator was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison in 2018.
Since 2018, two new versions of the platform have appeared under the name “Germany in the Deep Web”, on which drugs in particular were traded under the self-imposed motto “No control, everything allowed”.
The current criminal proceedings are directed against the operator of the third version of the Darknet platform. He is said to have administered this since November 2018. The accused is suspected of having operated a criminal trading platform on the Internet in accordance with Section 127 of the Criminal Code. The law provides for a prison sentence of one to ten years.
The platform, which has no longer been accessible to users since March 2022, had around 16,000 registered users, of which a total of 72 were active traders. This made “Germany in the Deep Web” one of the largest German-speaking darknet platforms. In order to draw attention to the activities of the investigative authorities in relation to “Germany in the Deep Web”, this security banner has now been published under the original accessibility of the website:

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Bavarian Cybercrime Central Office and the Federal Criminal Police Office
Also read: What is the Darknet?
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