Tag: Australian Federal Police

Case reflects new strategy of crime syndicates to bring drugs into Australia using smaller packages sent by mail or air cargo, say police.

Consignment with an estimated street value of $140-million detected in shipping container of ceramic tiles addressed to a Melbourne business.

Criminal syndicate with inside knowledge and access to secure areas at Australia’s busiest airport arrested over failed plan to import drugs.

Sydney man accessed the iCloud accounts of more than 90 unsuspecting victims and shared their sexual photos and videos with his ‘clients’.

Organised crime cops in the Northern Territory swoop on 43-year-old after they intercepted a suspicious parcel coming from China.

A WA man who was jailed for five years for money laundering is to lose the $6-million in cash that police found in his possession.

Colombian national living in Surfers Paradise arrested by Federal Police after methamphetamine was found hidden in boxes from Mexico.

Australian court imposes a sentence of more than nine years on Adelaide man who sexually assaulted girls during regular overseas trips.

British authorities, acting on information partly provided by the AFP’s Operation Ironside, seize drug shipment worth $226-million.

Spanish man living in NSW arrested by Aussie cops after Colombian police find cocaine hidden in bags of coffee bound for Australia.

Two Adelaide men who tried to import 18 kilograms of meth worth $7-million into Australia by hiding it in 4WD winches go to prison.

Accused is alleged to be part of a criminal syndicate that used labour hire and payroll companies to defraud the Commonwealth.

Two crew members of yacht sailing from the Pacific to NSW sentenced to between seven and 16 years for drug trafficking.

Victim from India was kept for almost nine years in squalid conditions and forced to cook, clean and care for couple's children.

Four alleged members of NSW drug syndicate that imported massive quantities of meth into Australia arrested during four-month investigation.

Email-based cybercrime is a constant threat and will rise when companies are forced by Covid to work remotely, cops warn.

Filipino victim was kept in slave-like circumstances and forced to work in couple’s home and business for more than three years.

Authorities say the 77kg of heroin hidden in imported equipment could have been distributed to 770,000 people and caused widespread harm.

AFP reveals that it worked with the American FBI to encrypt supposedly secret information being passed by criminal gangs.

The Australian Federal Police has unveiled an ambitious plan to recruit hundreds more women into its ranks.

Seventeen-year-old Perth girl is among those arrested for trafficking. Police say the heroin has an estimated street value of $55-million.

Consignment worth $80.7-million was found hidden in thousands of canola oil bottles sent from Mexico to Melbourne.

Two Sydney men extradited to Queensland as Australian and Dutch police continue their investigations that began in 2019.

Aussie cyber-police detect child abuser in US state of Kentucky and raise the alarm. Child saved and abuser arrested.

Sixty-three kilograms of methamphetamine found hidden in wooden pallets containing mop buckets from Malaysia.

Early morning search warrants in NSW today lead to arrest of five men over $47-million drug consignment from Mexico.

Australian counter-terrorism police apprehend one man in Melbourne and another near Brisbane for assisting fighters to go to Syria.

You wouldn't give a stranger your phone number, your date of birth or a photo album of your children. Yet this is common on social media.

Police surveillance watched the man as he allegedly dug up a bag hidden in bushland. It contained a large quantity of methamphetamine.

Melbourne man was arrested after UK police alerted their Australian counterparts that he was communicating with 13-year-old for sexual purposes.

Police warn Iranian expats, in particular, that they are being targeted to become unsuspecting couriers for overseas crime syndicates.

Qld woman gets four years in jail for helping her son abscond shortly before he was due to stand trial on major drugs charges.

Police warn that innocent people are being duped into being ‘money mules’ by fake job ads that are too good to be true.

Authorities uncover an ‘opportunistic attempt’ by organised crime to use a postal system insider to traffick narcotics.

Australian Federal Police issue warning to maximise privacy settings and avoid giving out too much information when posting photos online.

Methamphetamine with a street value of $187-million was hidden in various consignments of goods, including kitchen bench tops and chandeliers.

Man pretended to be a teenage social media celebrity in order to blackmail girls into providing him with sexually explicit images.

Another senior executive charged by Federal Police in relation to alleged bribes paid to Iraqi officials to secure reconstruction work.

Both men are founding members of the Adelaide-based Descendants gang and have criminal records. Gang allegedly engages in drug-related crimes.

The man, who is from the NSW city of Albury, allegedly had violent Neo-Nazi views and had accessed bomb-making information.

Latest seizure of drugs worth an estimated $135-million and arrest of four people highlights the scale of the problem.

Man was one of three Victorians who aimed to steal around $5-million from the Australia Tax Office using an elaborate fraud scheme.

Australian and international law enforcement spent nine years investigating allegations of massive payoffs to Iraqi oil officials.

Large consignment of meth sent from Iran was concealed beneath fake grass, which was part of the tunnel set-up.

Cops say they are targeting the criminal economy by confiscating criminal assets and removing the profit from crime.

A prominent member of Melbourne’s international community has become to first person to be charged under new foreign interference laws.

Man sentenced to nearly 15 years in a Melbourne court this week. He is now the fifth syndicate member to get a combined 68 years’ jail time.

Two males aged 17 and 20 have been arrested in Northern Territory Outback communities for child abuse material.

Victim is said to have declined police assistance on several occasions, prior to being married and moving to WA, where she died.

Police say only a well-resourced organised crime syndicate would have been able to attempt a smuggling operation on this scale.