{"id":39284,"date":"2019-05-07T23:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39284"},"modified":"2019-05-07T23:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:23:15","slug":"two-israelis-arrested-in-global-dark-internet-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39284","title":{"rendered":"Two Israelis arrested in global \u2018dark\u2019 internet probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1494131\/middle-east\" readability=\"66\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM:\u00a0Two Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of setting up a \u201cdark\u201d internet site that was used to buy weapons, drugs and stolen credit cards, Israeli police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe suspects, in their mid-30s, were arrested during a joint investigation with the FBI and Israel\u2019s cybercrime unit. Further arrests were made in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe suspects were arrested after setting up an Internet site that was in the \u2018dark\u2019,\u201d the police said in a statement. \u201cThe dark Internet site was used for illegal activities and crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe site had been active for a long period of time and millions of dollars of transactions had been made on the site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe police said the site guided users to other sites used for illegal activities and crimes which were being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe sites worked together covering each other and marketing illegal actions and transactions,\u201d police said, adding that the transactions were made using Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe two Israeli suspects are due to appear before a Tel Aviv court. No further details were given.<\/p>\n<p>\nThree German nationals accused of running one of the world\u2019s largest dark websites for selling drugs and other contraband were arrested last week and charged in two countries following a two-year investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\nA fourth man who allegedly acted as a moderator and promoter for the site was taken into custody in Brazil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM:\u00a0Two Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of setting up a \u201cdark\u201d internet site that was used to buy weapons, drugs and stolen credit cards, Israeli police said on Tuesday. The suspects, in their mid-30s, were arrested during a joint investigation with the FBI and Israel\u2019s cybercrime unit. Further arrests were made in France, Germany,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}