Seven people arrested as German police shut down illegal data centre in former NATO bunker

Record ID: 1433873

  • Title: Seven people arrested as German police shut down illegal data centre in former NATO bunker
  • Date: 27th September 2019
  • Summary: HAHN, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 27, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF NIGHT SHOTS OF POLICE OPERATION TAKING PLACE AT FORMER BUNKER SHOWN ON VIDEO SCREEN DURING NEWS CONFERENCE VARIOUS OF SERVERS INSIDE FORMER BUNKER SHOWN ON VIDEO SCREEN
  • Embargoed: 11th October 2019 14:27
  • Keywords: cyber crime NATO bunker illegal data centre criminal investigation arrests police operation
  • Location: TRABEN-TRABACH, HAHN, IN AIR; GERMANY
  • City: TRABEN-TRABACH, HAHN, IN AIR; GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA003AYFLSUF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:German police shut down an illegal data centre in a former NATO bunker located in western Germany on Friday (September 27) and arrested seven people suspected of membership in a criminal organisation as well as being accessories to hundreds of thousands of offences involving drugs, counterfeit money and child pornography.
    "I consider it a huge success...that our police forces have managed to get into the bunker system, which is still secured on the highest military level," Johannes Kunz, President of the National Bureau of Criminal investigation in Rhineland-Palatinate, told reporters at a news conference in Hahn.
    According to investigators the former NATO premises in Traben-Trarbach were acquired in 2013 by a Dutch man and turned into a huge data processing centre.
    "As far as we know it is the first time in Germany that an investigation is taking place not against the operators of shops and market places, but the ones, who make these kind of criminal offences possible," said Juergen Brauer, head of public prosecution.
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