More than 300 arrested following take-down of one of the world's largest dark web child porn marketplaces

More than 300 arrested following take-down of one of the world's largest dark web child porn marketplaces

By Naveel Krishant
17/10/2019
A "this site has been seized" screen with the logos of US, UK, German and other law enforcement agencies [Photo:BBC]

More than 300 people have been arrested following the take-down of one of the world's "largest dark web child porn marketplaces.

BBC reports the site had more than 200,000 videos which had collectively been downloaded more than a million times.

It was shut down last year after a UK investigation into a child sex offender uncovered its existence.

But officials revealed that 337 suspected users had been arrested across 38 countries.

[Source:BBC]

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