Joint media releases

Release date (field_release_date)
12/03/2021
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, Australian Federal Police, New South Wales Police Force, Australian Border Force, and the New South Wales Crime Commission.

A 27-year-old South Australian man is expected to appear in Sydney Central Local Court today following the seizure of approximately 200 kilograms of cocaine allegedly located on board a vessel off the New South Wales coast.

13/02/2021
Australian Federal Police; Australian Border Force; Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

Three Indian nationals have been arrested and charged by the AFP in Melbourne in relation to multiple alleged attempts to import border controlled substances into Australia.

22/01/2021
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission , the Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force, and Victoria Police.

Five members of an alleged transnational criminal syndicate operating in Melbourne have been charged following the seizure of 81 kilograms of methamphetamine, which has an estimated street value of more than $60 million

18/01/2021
Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force, Victoria Police and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC), and Department of Home Affairs.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) have charged two Iranian nationals with the alleged importation of approximately 250kg of methamphetamine in multiple consignments last month

11/12/2020
This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force and UK National Crime Agency

Five men have been arrested across Western Sydney and London following a joint investigation by Australian and UK authorities into a shipment of almost 450 kilograms of MDMA concealed in an excavator imported into Australia from the UK.

06/12/2020
Australian Federal Police, Victoria Police, Australian Border Force

A 33-year-old man from New South Wales has been charged over the April 2019 seizure of 200 kilograms of methamphetamine imported into Melbourne from Canada, after an extensive multi-agency investigation.

19/11/2020
Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force, Victoria Police and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

The self-described ‘queen’ of a criminal drug smuggling syndicate who has been convicted for her role in attempting to import high grade heroin into Melbourne was sentenced to prison in the Melbourne County Court today (Thursday 19 November, 2020).

29/10/2020
This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force, Victoria Police and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

A mother and son convicted over supplying and trafficking a commercial quantity of methamphetamine as part of a criminal syndicate were sentenced to prison before the Melbourne County Court late yesterday (Wednesday 28 October, 2020).

23/10/2020
Australian Federal Police-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE), Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and AUSTRAC.

Forty-four Australian men are facing 350 charges of possessing child exploitation material after a law enforcement referral sparked a large, nationwide criminal investigation.

21/10/2020
New South Wales Police Force, Financial Crimes Squad, Organised Crime Squad, the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.

Detectives have dismantled an alleged criminal syndicate operating a large-scale family day care fraud with the execution of over 30 search warrants at 18 locations and 13 arrests today.