Largest illegal trading platform for drugs taken down

An international action week led to the disruption of Archetyp, one of the longest-running dark web marketplaces for drugs, and the arrest of its creator and current administrator in Spain. The platform had around 3 200 vendors and more than 600 000 users, who traded drugs worth at least EUR 250 million. Eurojust and Europol coordinated the investigations and operations, which led to the arrest of eight persons in total.