An FBI-led global campaign targeting transnational criminal syndicates conducting and facilitating Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes has resulted in the arrest of 65 people world-wide, highlighting an issue that can have devastating consequences for Australian businesses.
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission has today released the unclassified report Organised Crime in Australia 2017, which validates our understanding of the unrelenting and increasingly transnational nature of organised crime in Australia.
Serious and organised crime cost the Australian economy up to $82.3 billion last year, according to the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC). Its destructive and pervasive illicit ventures impact everyone, often in unseen ways.
Two alleged senior members of a transnational crime syndicate linked to plots to import at least one tonne of methamphetamine into Australia have been arrested in Taiwan. The AFP worked with the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) and international partners to identify and locate the Taiwanese nationals, after one of them came on the AFP radar during Operation Ironside.
Website summary: As organised crime increasingly uses AI to scale and conceal their activities causing real harm to the Australian community, the ACIC is applying AI responsibly to detect and disrupt these activities.
Four men have been charged and methylamphetamine worth nearly $400 million has been seized after a joint investigation uncovered a drug syndicate operating in NSW.
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, Australian Transactions and Reporting Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)
This month four finalists have progressed onto the feasibility study stage of the joint AUSTRAC-ACIC challenge in the Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) program.
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, Australian Transactions and Reporting Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)
The private sector will be invited to contribute innovative solutions to improve the quality and value of intelligence products, in a first-of-its-kind joint project initiated by Australia’s financial intelligence agency, AUSTRAC, and the newly formed Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.
According to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC)’s National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, there has been an increase in methylamphetamine consumption in both capital cities and regional areas since August 2021.
Australian Border Force, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, Australian Federal Police
Three men have been arrested by the Victorian Joint Organised Crime Task Force (JOCTF), following an alleged attempt to import 17 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed within a consignment of door hinges.
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.
Last month, the Illicit Tobacco Taskforce (ITTF) celebrated its third anniversary. Since its establishment in July 2018, the ITTF has seized and destroyed more than 264 tonnes of illicit tobacco and over 540 million cigarettes, with an estimated loss of revenue to the Commonwealth of over $870 million.
Based on all intelligence available to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC), it is likely that cocaine trafficking groups (CTGs) collectively are attempting to supply as much, or perhaps more, cocaine to Australia than has ever been the case.
Traditional organised crime groups do not dominate the illicit fentanyl market in Australia, with many suppliers being opioid users or relatively low-level criminal entrepreneurs.
The National Firearms Register (NFR) will allow law enforcement to better assess firearms risks with near real-time information on firearms, linking data with other relevant police and government information.
A year ago today, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission was formed to strengthen Australia’s ability to respond to crime affecting our nation.
