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  • Two SA men charged following drug and money laundering investigation

    Australia Federal Police

    A South Australian man accused of an illicit cash handover is the eleventh person charged as part of an investigation into an alleged drug and money laundering syndicate operating across Australia. Ten people in Western and South Australia were charged earlier this year after police seized 114kg of methylamphetamine, 6.3kg of heroin, 4kg of ketamine and more than $1.1 million in suspected proceeds of crime.

  • 392 stolen vehicles recovered in Project NoCargo pilot, valued at $28 million

    The Royal Canadian Mounted Police

    The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) working in close collaboration with INTERPOL Ottawa, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), and Canadian financial institutions, have prevented the export of hundreds of vehicles obtained through fraudulent means as part of a pilot project launched last year. Project NoCargo was launched in June 2025 by the RCMP’s Federal Policing Criminal Operations – Financial Crime (FPCO FC) program, assisted by INTERPOL Ottawa, with the goal of investigating suspicious vehicle exports. One year later, Project NoCargo continues to deliver real results in the fight against auto theft and financial crime.

  • Syrian migrant smugglers arrested in coordinated strike in Germany and Serbia

    europol

    A coordinated international operation has dealt a significant blow to two international migrant smuggling networks with close links to Libya and the Western Balkans, leading to the arrest of three High Value Targets in Germany and Serbia. This follows several years of intensive and extensive investigations led by the German Federal Police under the direction of three Bavarian Public Prosecutors’ Offices. The action day, carried out on 5 August 2026, brought together authorities from Germany and Serbia under the framework of an Operational Taskforce coordinated by Europol. Investigators targeted senior members of two interconnected Syrian criminal networks believed to have organised the smuggling of more than 900 migrants into the European Union.

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