International drug trafficking? Two Bad Iburgers arrested! – In Bad Iburg (district of Osnabrück), the police arrested a 32-year-old and a 24-year-old. They are said to have sold drugs on a large scale via existing and self-founded online platforms.
A 33-year-old suspect from the Bielefeld area was also taken into custody, as the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Bamberg Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on Wednesday. The 32-year-old main defendant, the suspicious men and possible other accomplices are said to be responsible for more than 6,000 sales with a turnover of more than 750,000 euros. The Bamberg Public Prosecutor’s Office spoke to the NDR Niedersachsen of investigations against a criminal network. According to the information, the searches and arrests already took place on the 9th. April. The Bamberg Public Prosecutor’s Office and the BKA did not make the case public until Wednesday. A spokesman for the Bamberg Public Prosecutor’s Office justified this with ongoing investigations.
Websites have been sezied
According to the investigators, the suspects received the money for the drugs via the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Monero. The suspects are said to have appeared under the pseudonyms “Pygmalion”, “Don Morpheus” and “Modus Vivendi” on darknet marketplaces. In addition to the darknet, they are said to have sold illegal narcotics via messenger services and specially managed online shops and shipped them worldwide. According to the investigators, the investigators were able to take over and confiscate a significant part of the digital infrastructure. In doing so, the police provided evidence that would enable them to identify other participants and customers, it was said.
Further searches in North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia
In addition to the measures in Bad Iburg and the Bielefeld area, objects in Düsseldorf and in the Thuringian Unstrut-Hainich district were also searched. The Bamberg Public Prosecutor’s Office took over the investigation at the beginning of 2024 – it is responsible for the processing of prominent investigations in the field of cybercrime, according to a spokesman for the Public Prosecutor’s Office.