created the Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team, or J-Code, with more than a dozen special agents and staff. During the first few months of 2019, American officials conducted an operation called SaboTor, which focused on the vendors selling drugs on the dark net. Several markets have also chosen to ban the sale of fentanyl, to make them less attractive targets for law enforcement. But the impact of the law enforcement activity of the last two years could be temporary. Downing, the Justice Department lawyer, said that for now there was a recognition, even among the authorities, that dark net markets have become an enduring part of the criminal economy.

Source: New York Times June 11, 2019 07:02 UTC