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Wall Street Market / Silkkitie (Valhalla) shutdown

May 2019, Darknet market
Led by Bundeskriminalamt, Finnish Customs

Extended pass entry, last reviewed August 21, 2026

What was taken down?

Wall Street Market infrastructure was seized; Silkkitie/Valhalla infrastructure was separately taken down by Finnish Customs.

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What happened to the people?

Officials reported 3 apprehended.
Group accounted for: Partial

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Did it stay down?

Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.

See what happened afterward

German federal police/prosecutors shut down Wall Street Market, then reportedly serving more than a million users, and arrested three alleged administrators; Finnish Customs separately closed Silkkitie/Valhalla in the same coordinated period.

Date
May 2019
Target
Wall Street Market and Silkkitie/Valhalla, darknet market
Activity
Darknet market
Operational lead
BKA and Tulli
Partners
Europol, DEA[1][2]
Jurisdiction
Not established
Outcome
Wall Street Market infrastructure was seized; Silkkitie/Valhalla infrastructure was separately taken down by Finnish Customs.
Status
Completed
Legal mechanism
German judicial search/seizure authority; Finnish Customs enforcement authority.
Group accounted for
Partial

No individual is named against this entry in the cited record. That is a gap in what has been published rather than a finding that nobody was involved.

Group accounted for: Partial

Three alleged German administrators arrested (not individually named in the sources reviewed for this pass); a US-based moderator was separately charged. Reported as an aggregate count rather than named person records, consistent with the project's rule against placeholder person records.

Reported to have served more than one million users.

See the organizations and roles behind this action

Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.

Numbered markers throughout this entry link to the source that supports the claim beside them.

Official sources

  1. [1]
    Wall Street Market and Silkkitie takedown announcement

    US DOJ, May 3, 2019, Source grade P1

    Establishes the coordinated German/Finnish darknet-market shutdowns and the US moderator charge.

    No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.

  2. [2]
    Wall Street Market takedown coordination

    Europol, May 3, 2019, Source grade P2

    Corroborates the coordinated international nature of the action.

    No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.

Coverage note. Added from deep-research aggregation pass. Not independently re-verified source-by-source to the same standard as the original 38-incident core; source_quality capped at S2/P2 pending a dedicated verification pass.