Austrian authorities say they have extradited to the United States the suspected administrator of a vast dark web marketplace for drugs and other illegal goods.
Berlin — Austrian authorities said Monday they have extradited to the United States the suspected administrator of a vast dark web marketplace for drugs and other illegal goods.
The US Department of Justice has charged Milomir Desnica with running the Monopoly marketplace site and facilitating $18 million in illegal drug transactions using cryptocurrencies.
Authorities in the US and Europe last month announced the arrest of nearly 300 people on both sides of the Atlantic and the seizure of more than $53 million in the site’s bust, the largest operation of its kind. The dark web is a part of the Internet that is hosted within an encrypted network and accessible only through tools that provide special anonymity.
Austria’s federal criminal police said Desnica, a citizen of Croatia and Serbia, was arrested in Vienna last November and handed over to US authorities on Friday.
