Underground Marketplace 'Utopia' Seized by Dutch Police, 5 suspects arrested
Feb 13, 2014
After Silk Road , another underground online marketplace ' Utopia ' has been seized by Dutch National Police , where users could buy illegal drugs and guns for home delivery. The police started their investigation under Codename ' Operation Commodore ' in 2013, and finally seized Utopia's Germany-based servers and arrested total 5 suspects for running this marketplace. One arrested in Germany and other four suspects, aged 29 to 46, were detained in The Netherlands. Two of them had also been involved in another similar underground website ' Black Market Reloaded ', which was closed in December 2013. Utopia reportedly launched only last week ( https://ggvow6fj3sehlm45.onion/ ), intended to become a direct competitor of the Silk Road, was a ' d ark web ' website, which is accessible only by using Tor anonymity software. The website is now displaying a message: " This hidden ...
