American and Australian governemnt forces worked together to arrest hundreds of cybercriminals allegedly involved with illegally reading encrypted messages. Officials monitored an encrypted app the criminals used to carry out "Operation Ironside."
International law enforcement agencies on June 8 revealed a vast three-year global operation to infiltrate an encryption platform popular among criminal groups, resulting in hundreds of arrests worldwide.
05:16 EDT, 9 June 2021
Heavily-armed tactical officers smashed down the door of an alleged drug kingpin with a battering ram before storming the property as part of Operation Ironside.
Dramatic bodycam footage from Australia s most audacious organised crime sting shows police make their way through a house at Upper Coomera on the Gold Coast, where they allegedly uncovered cocaine, MDMA, steroids, large sums of cash, ammunition, three mobile phones, scales and a gel blaster handgun.
The 35-year-old man charged with serious drug offences also had an impressive collection of designer caps.
He appeared in Southport Magistrates Court today charged with three counts of trafficking dangerous drugs, four counts of possession of a dangerous drug and one count each of possessing explosives and dealing in the proceeds of crime.