Black Hand, a major nighttime spider web forum for illegal dealing inward drugs, weapons, databases, as well as simulated documents was unopen downwards yesteryear French government inward a massive functioning on June 12.
The functioning involved over forty agents of the National Directorate of Intelligence as well as Customs Investigations (DNRED), Canis familiaris handlers as well as technical experts to bear coordinated raids inward several French cities, according to a statement yesteryear the French Minister of Public Action as well as Accounts, Gérald Darmanin.
The website had been inward functioning for to a greater extent than than 2 years as well as was allegedly function yesteryear a 28-year-old adult woman alongside no previous criminal record, who was arrested inward the raids concluding Tuesday every bit Black Hand’s principal administrator, along alongside 3 other people.
The website was accessible solely through a exceptional software as well as was used yesteryear over 3,000 people, according to Darmanin.
He described the functioning every bit “the start of its sort inward France” as well as said that it resulted inward the regain of numerous mistaken identity documents, virtually 4,000 euros inward cash as well as 25,000 euros inward unlike virtual currencies, as well as seizure of reckoner equipment.
The investigators were every bit good able to access the contents of the server as well as its data.
“I congratulate the DNRED agents for this extraordinary operation. The dismantling of this platform forms a start at the national marker as well as illustrates the mobilization of the customs, as well as inward detail the DNRED, inward the cope against the novel forms of cybercrime,” Darmanin said inward the statement.
The suspects were beingness held inward custody inward Lille, where they were brought inward front end of the magistrates of a courtroom afterwards 48 hours.
