Feds in Cleveland charge Iranian man with running dark web drug marketplace

CLEVELAND, Ohio— An Iranian man ran a dark web marketplace that sold troves of drugs, stolen financial information and hacking-for-hire services, according to federal prosecutors.

Behrouz Parsarad for three years ran the darknet site Nemesis, which processed more than 400,000 orders for methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and malware, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday in federal court in Cleveland.

Some of Nemesis’ users were in northern Ohio, the indictment indicates…

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