Footage has emerged of the inside of a five-storey abandoned underground NATO bunker built with 31inch thick concrete walls in Germany allegedly converted by criminal gangs into a high tech data centre to host darknet market websites. 
An Australian man was arrested on Monday accused of running a $220million illegal darkweb marketplace - called the biggest in the world and 'eBay for criminals' - after ha was tracked following the bunker's discovery. 
The joint investigation by Australian Federal Police, Scotland Yard, the FBI, Europol, and German authorities, among others, arrested the Queensland man, 34, as he allegedly tried flee across the Danish border into Germany. 
The man, known only as Julian K, is the alleged operator of DarkMarket and has been detained by German investigators.













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A night-vision aerial view of the aboveground portion of the bunker containing a gatehouse, office, helipad and entrance building (pictured) which descends another four levels below the surface 






German police officers walk through the gate at the perimeter of the former Cold War bunker (pictured) converted into an illegal data centre after it was raided in 2019 

DarkMarket was shut down on Monday and its new servers, located in Ukraine and Moldova after relocating from the bunker, were taken off the internet, prosecutors in the city of Koblenz said.
'Until its closure, DarkMarket was probably the largest marketplace worldwide on the darknet market, with almost 500,000 users and more than 2400 sellers,' prosecutors said. 





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The solid concrete bunker (pictured) was built to withstand dark markets websites a nuclear blast is located in the south-western German town of Traben-Trarbach 










Two of the entrances to the disused bunker (pictured) which was raided by police in 2019 after being bought by a private foundation based in Denmark in 2012 

The accused man has already fronted a German court and been denied bail - to be transferred to a German prison in the next few days. 
He has reportedly refused to speak to investigators or court officials. 
German prosecutors said the man was trying to flee Denmark into Germany when arrested and was travelling through Europe either on holiday or conducting business for the illegal website. 
They said the investigation around DarkMarket originated after the discovery of the data processing centre run by criminals in the 5,000sqm former unused bunker in south-west Germany. 





Server rows constructed in the bunker which is made of solid concrete and climate controlled (pictured).

The data centre was dismantled after the raid and multiple people linked to the centre were put on trial