
Silk Road 2.0 and 400 other sites believed to be selling illegal items including drugs and weapons have been shut down.
The sites operated on the Tor network - a part of the internet unreachable via traditional search engines.
Troels Oerting from Europol told the BBC's Anna Holligan how the joint police operation between 16 European countries unfolded.
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