The alleged administrators of the famous underground markets Bohemia and Cannabia have been arrested after shutting down the websites and attempting to flee with their profits. The arrests followed an investigation that began in 2022, during which Dutch police identified servers related to the underground marketplaces in the Netherlands. The police allege that the sites were trafficking illicit products, including drugs (mainly cannabis) and DDOS tools, and described them as “the largest and oldest international dark web market of all time worldwide.” Several million […]
The alleged administrators of the famous underground markets Bohemia and Cannabia have been arrested after shutting down the websites and attempting to flee with their profits.
The arrests were made following an investigation that began in 2022 in which the Dutch police identified servers related to clandestine sales points in the Netherlands.
The police allege that the sites were trafficking in illicit products, including drugs (mainly cannabis) and DDOS tools, and described them as “the largest and oldest international dark web market of all time worldwide”.
Several million euros in sales per month
The police determined that the sites carried out approximately 67,000 transactions per month, with a record business volume of 12 million euros reached in September 2023. The Dutch police believe that the administrators personally earned about 5 million euros from the operation before executing the exit scam.
Apparently, the operators of Bohemia and Cannabia learned about the police investigation, which disrupted their operations, so in 2023 they allegedly carried out an “exit scam” that led them to shut down services and seize the funds from the operations.
That exit did not stop investigators from the Netherlands, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, leading to two arrests of alleged administrators. One of them was handcuffed in the Netherlands and appeared before a Rotterdam court on Thursday. The other was detained in Ireland.
“When conducting criminal investigations and pursuing these criminals, it becomes clear that the dark web is not at all as anonymous as users might think. Thanks to international cooperation, the credibility and reliability of these markets have been severely damaged once again,” stated Stan Duijf, head of the operations unit of the National Directorate of Investigation and Interventions.
Author: Chema Carvajal Sarabia
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