The founder of the world’s largest online child pornography website, which utilized the darknet and cryptocurrency in its criminal operations, has been arrested, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

Jong Woo Son, 23, the administrator of the child porn website Welcome To Video, was arrested in March 2018, and the DOJ said it spent a year and a half following his arrest investigating the site’s users and shutting down its online operations.

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