Germany: Dismantling the largest online drug sales platform
- Posted on June 20, 2022
“Chemical Revolution” is issued globally, paid in cryptocurrency. Police seized large quantities of amphetamines, marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and LSD. Eleven suspects have been arrested.
The German prosecutor’s office and German police reported this Friday (06.28.2019) that Germany’s largest online drug sales platform was dismantled in the name of the “chemical revolution” and 11 perpetrators were arrested.
Last spring, the arrest of a 26-year-old German citizen for drug trafficking, according to the Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA), led to an investigation by the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office.
“Chemical Revolution”, the global issuance of cryptocurrencies
During searches in the federal states of Hesse and Lower Saxony, police seized nearly 50 kilograms of amphetamines, 16 kilograms of cannabis, 2 kilograms of ecstasy, 900 grams of cocaine, 600 grams of heroin and a large amount of ecstasy and paper. LSD, declaration specified.
The suspects claimed to have stockpiled the drugs for a group of people operating under the name “Chemical Revolution” and were preparing to ship them to customers.
Within the framework of the investigation, 10 other members of the group were identified and arrested, including the main suspect, a 26-year-old German from Munich, whose last residence was on the Spanish island of Mallorca, accused of making Platform in 2017 and managing it with others.
The platform’s catalog includes a variety of narcotics, especially synthetic drugs such as ecstasy, ecstasy, and amphetamines, as well as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana, and is distributed anywhere in the world and paid for using the bitcoin cryptocurrency.
‘Wall Street Market’, an alternative to the ‘dark web’ for drug sales
The suspects sell not only on their own portals, but also through the “Wall Street Market” platform, which until recently became the second-largest platform for illicit sales worldwide in the so-called “darknet,” which was recently dismantled by German police.
The main defendant, arrested on May 28, was charged with selling drugs over the Internet, coordinating supplies and managing funds.
“Chemical Revolution” is issued globally, paid in cryptocurrency. Police seized large quantities of amphetamines, marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and LSD. Eleven suspects have been arrested.