Overview

• More than 300 officers from German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and other agencies carried out 25 raids on June 11 to dismantle Archetyp Market
• The site processed at least €250 million in illicit drug sales over five years with roughly 612,000 customer accounts, 3,200 sellers and 17,000 active listings
• Spain’s National Police arrested the alleged administrator, a 30-year-old German known as 'ASNT', at his Barcelona residence
• Investigators seized about €7.8 million in assets, including cryptocurrency holdings, luxury vehicles and digital devices, and disabled the platform’s servers in the Netherlands
• Seven additional suspects were detained in Sweden and officials are analysing seized data to pursue remaining vendors and buyers