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 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.
PART 1: This is how the AFP and FBI toppled Mafia, bikies and ethnic gangs from Asia to Albania by executing raids across Australia.
PART 2: This is the moment Australian Federal Police created the AN0M app — a Trojan horse that could expose criminals and their networks.
Police will now target a raft of trusted insiders – corrupt people working in legitimate businesses and help drug lords get their evil cargo into Australia.
PART 3: Aussie cops convinced “influencers” who could get others to use the AN0M app where their secret networks were finally exposed.
Up to 21 murder plots including hits on two organised crime families were stopped because of intel from the AN0M app. WARNING: Graphic
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