Darknet Trading Platform ‘Archetyp Market’ Shut Down
2 July 2025 // Preprint Issue 2/2025
Riehle_Cornelia_Neu_SW.jpg Cornelia Riehle LL.M.

In June 2025, an international week of action led to the disruption of one of the longest-running dark web marketplaces for drugs. The Archetyp platform, active for over five years, served around 3200 vendors and over 600,000 users who traded drugs worth at least €250 million. The action week also resulted in the arrest of the platform's administrator (a German national residing in Spain) and seven other individuals, as well as the seizure of assets worth €7.8 million. Eurojust and Europol coordinated the investigations and operations carried out by law enforcement and judicial authorities in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Romania, together with the support of the United States.

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Author

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Cornelia Riehle LL.M.

Institution:
Academy of European Law (ERA)

Department:
Criminal Law

Position:
Deputy Head of Section