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# Wall Street Market / Silkkitie (Valhalla) shutdown

May 2019, Darknet market
Led by [Bundeskriminalamt](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/bundeskriminalamt), [Finnish Customs](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/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.

[See what happened](#what-happened)

What happened to the people?

Officials reported 3 apprehended.
Group accounted for: Partial

[See people and accountability](#people)

Did it stay down?

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

[See what happened afterward](#afterward)

## What happened

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]](#source-1)[[2]](#source-2)

- [European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/european-union-agency-for-law-enforcement-cooperation), coordinator
- [Drug Enforcement Administration](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/drug-enforcement-administration), supporting

**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

## People and accountability

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](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/wall-street-market-silkkitie-valhalla-shutdown/organizations)

## What happened afterward

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

## Sources

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

### Official sources

1.
[Wall Street Market and Silkkitie takedown announcement](https://takedownindex.org/sources/us-doj-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.
[Wall Street Market takedown coordination](https://takedownindex.org/sources/europol-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.

Research context

## How this entry was checked

This entry came from a broader aggregation pass and has not been independently verified source by source. Its sources are graded no higher than P2 or S2, and most carry no address yet. Treat the figures as a research lead rather than a settled record.

Source review: Extended pass, not yet verified

Sources cited: 2

Research cutoff: August 20, 2026

Last reviewed August 21, 2026

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