Accused Operation Ironside criminals in huge court win
Accused drug kingpins arrested under Operation Ironside have won a significant legal battle that may allow them to hide their riches from police.
Accused drug kingpins arrested under Operation Ironside have won a significant legal battle that may allow them to hide their riches from police.
A horse trainer known as ‘The Pope’ was caught trafficking $37.5m of meth – now newly released AN0M messages reveal what was going on behind the scenes.
The latest person charged under Operation Ironside is accused of laundering more than $640,000 and trafficking drugs in 13 Adelaide suburbs.
Today we reveal the identities of dozens more South Australians charged over the Operation Ironside organised crime sting. See who they are, what they’re charged with, and where they live.
Police are fearing a rise in violence in Sydney’s criminal underworld after mass arrests in the AN0M police sting.
Police say exiled Comanchero boss Mark Buddle would have been on the tapes recorded jointly by the FBI and the AFP and that he has fled to Iraq just in the past several weeks.
Fugitive drug lord Hakan Ayik, who led the criminal underworld straight to law enforcement, has been given an ultimatum.
Dozens of South Australians caught up in the Operation Ironside sting have appeared in court.
At 5.30am on Monday, a senior South Australian detective radioed the phrase “execute resolution” – and more than 400 cops sprang into action.
Police from 16 countries have arrested more than 800 suspects and seized more than $48 million in the AFP’s “sting of the century”.
Comanchero bikie members from suburbs across Melbourne have been arrested in raids linked to global police sting Operation Ironside. Victoria Police are expected to use information uncovered to solve at least four murders.
A Ninja Warrior contestant and a former Bandidos bikie caught up in the infamous Broadbeach brawl are among Queenslanders stung in Australia’s largest ever crime bust.
This is Australia’s Mafia Man who cops secretly used to fool local criminals and global fugitives to give up their identities and networks.
The AFP and FBI secretly used an encrypted platform known as AN0M, to catch crims at their own game. This is how it operated.
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