Dutch police secretly ran a huge dark web drug marketplace for a month

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by Sindy Cator on July 20, 2017 at 2:13 pm

In a shocking turn of events, Europol has revealed that the National Dutch Police had surreptitiously taken over and operated the second largest drug marketplace on the dark web, Hansa, for at least a month now. “Months of preparation and coordination have resulted today, 20 July 2017, in the takedown of two of the largest criminal Dark Web markets, AlphaBay and Hansa,” Europol said in a press release. #NEWS Press event today (16:00 CET) on major intl cybercrime action w/ @TheJusticeDept & @FBI🎥Live-streamed on https://t.co/8u3XvqMNew pic.twitter.com/uxbN4quz2L — Europol (@Europol) July 20, 2017 The news follows the unexpected disappearance of the…