Germany: 8 Convicted Over Illegal Data Center in Bunker

Germany: 8 Convicted Over Illegal Data Center in Bunker
Presiding judge G'nther Koehler announces the verdicts in the so-called Cyberbunker trial at the regional court in Trier, Germany, on Dec. 13, 2021. Harald Tittel/dpa via AP
The Associated Press
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BERLIN—A German court on Monday convicted eight people over their role in a data processing center installed at a former military bunker that hosted sites dealing in drugs and other illegal activities.

The data center at the former bunker in Traben-Trarbach, a picturesque town on the Mosel River in western Germany, was raided and shut down in September 2019. It was set up as what investigators described as a “bulletproof hoster,” meant to conceal illicit activities from authorities’ eyes.