Hydra was an online criminal marketplace that enabled users in mainly Russian-speaking countries to buy and sell illicit goods and services, including illegal drugs, stolen financial information, fraudulent identification documents, and money laundering and mixing services, anonymously and outside the reach of law enforcement. In conjunction with the shutdown of Hydra, the department also announced criminal charges against Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov, 30, a resident of Russia, for conspiracy to distribute narcotics and conspiracy to commit money laundering, in connection with his operation and administration of the servers used to run Hydra.
Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds for the Northern District of California. This action also underscores the importance of international law enforcement collaboration. We thank German authorities and the Bundeskriminalamt, the German Federal Criminal Police Office, for its valued assistance in this case.
Criminals on the darknet hide behind the illusion of anonymity, but DEA and our partners across the globe are watching. We will continue to investigate, expose, and take action against criminal networks no matter where they operate.
Denying criminals a space to operate freely to conduct their nefarious activities is the first step in stopping this activity from happening altogether. Barksdale of the U. Postal Inspection Service National Headquarters.
The Postal Inspection Service will continue to work with our federal partners to end these criminal organizations regardless of where they are. Hydra vendors offered a variety of illicit drugs for sale, including cocaine, methamphetamine, LSD, heroin and other opioids. The vendors openly advertised their drugs on Hydra, typically including photographs and a description of the controlled substance.
Hydra also featured numerous vendors selling false identification documents. Users could search for vendors selling their desired type of identification document — for example, U. Many vendors of false identification documents offered to customize the documents based on photographs or other information provided by the buyers. Numerous vendors also sold hacking tools and hacking services through Hydra.
Mixing services allowed customers, for a fee, to send bitcoin to designated recipients in a manner that was designed to conceal the source or owner of the bitcoin. The marketplace had become particularly popular with users by developing creative delivery methods, the Chainalysis report added. A German-led police sting last year took down notorious darknet marketplace DarkMarket, which had nearly , users and more than 2, vendors worldwide.
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