More then $25 Million in Bitcoin Seized by US Department Of Justice.

The Department of Justice in with the help of a host of other government agencies have uncovered vendors of illegal goods on the Darknet to seize weapons and more then $20 million in virtual currency from them.

The operation which was lead by the (DOJ) had Special Agents of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) pose as money launderers on Darknet market sites where they were able to identify vendors of illegal products while exchanging U.S dollars for Bitcoin.

The agents were able to seize weapons, $3.6 million in U.S currency, crypto-currency mining devices, narcotics & gold bars, nearly 2,000 Bitcoins and other crypto-currencies worth over $20 million. The DOJ announced that, Speaking on the success of the bust, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein said illicit vendors should not feel too comfortable in the Darknet. “Criminals who think that they are safe on the Darknet are wrong,” he said. “We can expose their networks, and we are determined to bring them to justice. Today, we arrested more than 35 alleged Darknet vendors. We seized their weapons, their drugs, and $23.6 million of their illegal gains.”

Rosenstein also said that the next steps were for the agency. He said there will be a nationwide effort to cut off the supply of drugs like the deadly “fentanyl that are killing an unprecedented number of Americans.” According to doctors, an amount of fentanyl as “small as a grain of sand can kill an adult.”

He was however ecstatic as the “veil has been lifted” and today’s bust shows that “every criminal is within arm’s reach of the law.”

This operation, the HSI New York was able to re-open more than 92 active cases around the country which led to the arrests of over 35 Darknet vendors. The DOJ worked with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on the operation.

This thing can directly or indirectly affect the whole crypto-market, and because there are more then 90 cases pending under US government, can lead to creation of new rules for crypto users and tighten the security.