More than 800 suspects, 8 tonnes of cocaine as well as more than $48 million have been captured in a large worldwide sting operation involving sixteen countries, including the US, officials revealed on Tuesday 8th of July.
According to Europol, the European Union law enforcement agency, the FBI, and Australian law enforcement have established and operated an encoded device company, named ANOM, which was then utilized to obtain access to organized criminal networks in over 100 nations.
The ANOM APP allows police officers to track the drug smuggling, money laundering, and even assassination plans, which had been discreetly circulated among the offenders.
Drug gangs and those linked to the mafia were their targets. The operation, which took place in even more than a dozen nations, comprised drugs, firearms, luxury automobiles, and cash of the offenders.
“Operation Trojan Shield is a shining example of what can be accomplished when law enforcement partners from around the world work together and develop state of the art investigative tools to detect, disrupt and dismantle transnational criminal organizations,” said Calvin Shivers, the assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division in a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands.
Whereas Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the operation had "struck a heavy blow against organized crime" around the world.
Initially, the FBI started using a network of protected devices named ANOM and disseminated devices that over the criminal world using the chat app. The operation came about when the law enforcement agencies took over two other encrypted websites leaving criminal gangs on the market for new protected phones.
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