'There will be reprisals': Police warning after global crime ring smashed

https://www.9news.com.au/national/australian-police-fbi-smash-crime-ring-adelaide/a14ab998-c155-4cb9-94e5-bcf9d1d6b5d8

Police have warned of reprisals and conflict following a major operation that led to the arrest of more than 100 leading crime figures.

Operation Ironside was part of a global policing operation and involved the use of a secret encrypted app to catch criminals.

More than 4000 officers from the Australian Federal Police, state and territories forces were involved in the operation, which secretly began three years ago.

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Operation Ironside led to the arrest of 224 offenders on 526 charges in every mainland Australian state.

Mr Kershaw said the AFP and FBI secretly used an encrypted platform known as AN0M during the operation.

The encrypted communications – which allegedly included plots to kill, mass drug trafficking and gun distribution - were decrypted from a platform covertly run by the FBI.

The app AN0M was installed on mobile phones that were stripped of other capabilities.

The mobile phones, which were bought on the black market, could not make calls or send emails.

Among the seizures carried out were $1.9 million in cash, 90kg of high-grade methamphetamines with a street value of $45 million and 350kg of cannabis.