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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Operation Ironside: Australian Federal Police/FBI Seize 3.7 Tons of Drugs, $45 Million and Arrest 224 People

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More than 100 organized crime members have been arrested in Australia as part of the operation, initiated after the United States’ FBI decrypted “Anom,” an online communications platform used by gang figures. Photo: 7NEWS

An international law enforcement operation against organized criminal activity has resulted in mass arrests and struck what the Australian prime minister describes as a “heavy blow” against crime gangs. More than 100 organized crime members have been arrested in Australia as part of the operation, initiated after the United States’ FBI decrypted ANØM, an online communications platform used by gang figures.

“The AFP also acted on 20 threats to kill, potentially saving the lives of a significant number of innocent bystanders, with intelligence referred to state police agencies which took immediate action,” the AFP said in a statement on Tuesday.

It added that more arrests are expected both domestically and overseas, with Australia likely to seek extradition of a number of alleged criminals from overseas. Offenders are linked to the Australian-based Italian mafia, outlaw motorcycle gangs, Asian crime syndicates, and Albanian organized crime figures.

Inside Special Operation Ironside

AFP-led Operation Ironside has led to the arrest of 224 offenders on 526 charges in every mainland Australian state. It had seized 3.7 tonnes of drugs, 104 weapons, and almost $45 million in cash as part of the operation since 2018. Photo: 9News

After working together to take down encrypted platform provider Phantom Secure as part of Operation Safe Cracking, the AFP and FBI worked together to fill the vacuum. The agencies targeted a dedicated encrypted communications platform called ANØM, which had been used exclusively by organized crime.

“The FBI had access to a new app, named ANØM, and began running it without the knowledge of the criminal underworld,” the AFP said on Tuesday. “The AFP provided the highly skilled technical staff, and capability to decrypt and read encrypted communications in real-time, giving law enforcement an edge it had never had before.”

The ANØM app would be installed on mobile phones bought on the black market that was only able to send messages to other devices that had the organized crime app and stripped of other capabilities. As high-profile criminals vouched for the app’s integrity, the popularity of the rigged devices increased.

“These criminal influencers put the AFP in the back pocket of hundreds of alleged offenders,” the AFP said. “Essentially, they have handcuffed each other by endorsing and trusting ANØM and openly communicating on it – not knowing we were watching the entire time.”


In the past days, ANØM’s social media accounts were deleted and sections and functionalities on its website began disappearing. Photo: 7News

ANØM’s website used to claim the service used “military-grade” encryption and that messages and files sent within the app were “hardened” against surveillance. “Deleted data cannot be recovered through forensic examination,” the site said of its claim to “sanitize” a device that had been seized by authorities.

FBI representative Anthony Russo said the operation was an example of how global cooperation between police forces could smash organized crime. "The criminals should be on notice that law enforcement and partnerships all over the world are resolute in their dedication to collaboration and to continue to evolve our capabilities," Mr. Russo said.

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said the expansion of strike forces had been carried out in anticipation of what would follow Ironside. "There will be reprisals, there will be debts owed, there will be conflict, there will be somebody trying to step up," he said.

More than 4000 members from the AFP and state and territory police were involved in the execution of hundreds of warrants on June 7, 2021, three years after Operation Ironside covertly began. Photo: 9News

Since Sunday, with 1000 officers in the field, NSW Police carried out 33 search warrants across the state and arrested 35 people. About $10 million in cash has been seized in the past week and a half, including $7 million from a floor safe in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville. There were also 27 high-end firearms seized, including a .50 caliber "military-grade" sniper rifle from the regional town of Mudgee.

Across Victoria, hundreds of officers carried out 37 search warrants and conducted 32 arrests.
Assistant Commissioner Robert Hill said he was confident the data collected by Operation Ironside could help solve unsolved homicides. He said many of the arrests had targeted people associated with the Comancheros outlaw motorcycle gang, with nine patched members in cuffs, including the group's Sergeant-at-Arms.

New Zealand authorities have also arrested 35 people for alleged drug dealing and money laundering, seizing some $NZ3.7 million ($A3.4 million) in assets.

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31 comments:

  1. If your on that level talking on the phone. You deserve it.

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    1. Pettingel family making billions.

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    2. It's not a phone in that sense of the word.. You can't make or accept calls or even email...

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  2. Is it true el mencho was almost captured yesterday?

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  3. Excellent 👍 catch worldwide, hope cjng was one of the many that suffered big time loss.

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    1. I am glad to inform you, yes members of CJNG were apprehended.
      Fortunately no one from Mexico tipped them off.

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  4. Is this the same as what the US FBI is calling " Trojan Horse " ? I think so:

    https://apnews.com/article/europe-technology-a6ac691e26be2efc6e2f4a6974117536?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=June8_MorningWire&utm_term=Morning%20Wire%20Subscribers

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    1. Yes it is the same operation of the Anom app, huge worldwide coordination to hit them at the same times. I am sure more news will be coming

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  5. Enchroat is hit the UK players

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  6. All started with arrest and indictment of Owen Hanson aka O Dog in 2015 at Hyatt Aviara, Vice does a good piece on him and Vincent Ramos whose Toronto based company supplied some of the phones used by his group. It’s a sprawling international blockbuster summer movies in the 90s kind of case

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  7. Excellent 👌 I am sure FBI concentrated on Cartels from Mexico, sorry Obrador, your country stinken drugs got intercepted over seas.

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    1. Yea Now if Mexico could do the same ! Let the Aussies use this as an example
      If only ALMO had the balls to head Mexico in the same direction
      it will never EVER happen in Mexico Corupption is in the genes of "Some" Mexicans

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    2. Actually they didn't focus on cartels from Mexico

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    3. 11:25 boy were you the fly, that saw everything, wait wait you have top security clearance, and that allows you to tell the public of what you saw and heard.

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    4. not obrador, the dog was a labrador, spell check !

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    5. The dog is Obrador lol his is not Labrador what a dork

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  8. Will be interesting to see if this leads to suppliers in Asia and Mexico

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  9. Kinda funny crims thought they where been sneaky and all end up fucked. Im sure authorities love these type of so called encrypted phones because once they find a vulnerability and hack it they get soo much data from it... Learn a lesson from this nothig is full proof and can be hacked...

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  10. from what i read on other sites, they did not decrypted anything, FBI and co setup anon. It was their child and successfull deployed against a bunch of stupid morons who didnt got the news from the phantom secure.
    e.g. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2021-06-07/fbi-cellphones-operation-trojan-shield

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  11. and the affidavit is out there, dont have link but "case 3:21-mj70945-LB" filed 06/07/21 should provide results.

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  12. They CAN'T catch SINLOA cartel THEY are NUMBER one.....just saying

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    1. You already stating a comment delite just saying.

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  13. Are they anyway connected to the Mexican cartels?

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  14. I bet their wiretaps are white-hot right now. "Tickling the wire."

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  15. Mencho is my dad, and I hate it that he wouldn't let me join his cartel. Well really my family is part of the CU lacras and that's why I like and say things that aren't Tru and my go to line is "trust me"
    Just like I swore to you guys M2 is trapped in Aguililla ND they couldn't win there it's showing now that he is in fact not trapped and CJNG pretty much took control of that plaza, but I'm an idiot and I will still say what I want because I'm biased and my family are lacras
    CJNG are all talk, they get slapped In Michoacan, all the govt reports all the news outlets all the videos of advancing are super fake, you know how I know? I'm a homie and I have super powers that tell me because my nipples get hard and that is a sign of lies.
    My nipples get hard everytime they say CJNG is advancing in Mich..
    Lastly, Mencho is not friends with Cuini anymore, he only got power from marrying Rosalindal because marriage has some superpower, even though Jessica Johanna and Menchito were already young kids before they got married Mencho wasn't liked until the marriage and that's 100% facts because my asshole puckers when I know I'm right.
    I am the biggest moron online and I am the self proclaimed narco idiot who knows absolutely Nothing and none of you guys will take my super nipples and magical asshole away from me unless your name is Elencho, then of course you can have them

    ATTE SECRET MANAGEMENT

    OPERATION FUNDILLOS UNIDOS
    FUERZAS ESPECIALES GRUPO JOTOS
    Ala order Del Señor RompeCulos


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  16. cant trust them computerized cops, pretty tricky boys.

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  17. Worldwide that's what you think I think these stories are a bit fabricated

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  18. Lol. They make it sound all high-tech and shit. Really, they just suckered a bunch of criminals in to believing the encryption was bulletproof. " Hey guys, use this encryption app. We totally promise we're not law enforcement and feel free to discuss all criminal activity." Idiots

    Atte: Sicario 602

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  19. “The FBI had access to a new app, named ANØM, and began running it without the knowledge of the criminal underworld,” the AFP said on Tuesday.

    Cuini snitched.

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    1. 451 you got the answer as you stated yet you play the snitch card, give me a break.

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