German Police Shut Down Darknet Marketplace Selling Drugs

German Police Shut Down Darknet Marketplace Selling Drugs
An image of the message placed on the dark web site Archetyp after it was seized by police in Germany on June 16, 2025. Courtesy of Bundeskriminalamt
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One of the world’s biggest darknet marketplaces for fentanyl and other drugs, Archetyp, has been taken down by German police as part of Operation Deep Sentinel. Its alleged creator and administrator has been arrested in Spain.

Eurojust, the European Union agency for criminal justice cooperation, said Archetyp had more than 600,000 users and about 3,200 vendors who had traded drugs worth at least 250 million euros (about $288 million).
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