Piilopuoti dark web marketplace shut down by police
An international law enforcement operation involving the Finnish Customs (Tulli), the German Federal Criminal Office (Bundeskriminalamt), the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau (Lietuvos kriminalinės policijos biuras) and Europol has resulted in the shutdown of the dark web marketplace called Piilopuoti.
The marketplace, which has been in operation since May 2022, specialized in selling drugs and was used as means to smuggle illicit substances into Finland.
The Finnish Customs said it seized Piilopuoti’s servers and extracted their content.
The authorities didn’t provide further information regarding the police operation as the investigation is still ongoing and law enforcement worldwide is working together to identify the sellers and users on the platform.
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