Joint media releases
Today the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission have released updated figures for the cost of serious and organised crime in Australia. The Institute estimates that it cost up to $68.7 billion a year in 2022–23, compared to $60.1 billion in 2020–21.
Cannabis and methylamphetamine are consumed more than any other illicit drugs in Australia.
National Taskforce Morpheus is a joint initiative targeting the highest threat outlaw motorcycle gangs impacting Australia
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director P. J. Lechleitner hosted Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group (FELEG) Annual Principals Meeting this week, where international and national partners met to discuss technology, innovation and encryption, and the emergent impacts on global safety.
The AFP has charged a Brisbane man, who is alleged to be the Australian leader of a transnational organised crime organisation, over a botched 900kg cocaine import that led to bricks of the drug washing up on NSW beaches.
Two men with alleged links to Afghani organised crime have been charged over an alleged attempt to smuggle 98kg of methamphetamine, concealed in wheat thresher machines, into Australia.
The AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) has restrained $1.1 billion in criminal assets in the past four years, delivering a significant blow to organised criminals living large from the proceeds of crime.
A Montenegrin national has been charged by the AFP for allegedly refusing to comply with a Commonwealth Magistrate's Order for data access.
Seven members of an alleged Chinese organised crime syndicate accused of secretly running a prominent, multi-billion-dollar money remitting chain in Australia, have been charged under the most complex AFP-led money-laundering investigation in the nation’s history.
Two members of an alleged transnational criminal syndicate operating in Melbourne will face Melbourne Magistrates court today (Wednesday 6 September, 2023) after authorities seized approximately 300kg of methamphetamine.