Of AU$31 million of assets seized by the AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce so far, AU$6 million came from one Western Australian man.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) has so far seized over AU$31 million of assets through Operation Ironside, the message decryption sting operation that was labelled as the country’s « most significant operation in policing history ». The update was provided as part of an AFP announcement that it made its first multi-million cash forfeiture as part of the sting operation, confiscating AU$6 million of cash from a Western Australian man. The man, who was a member of a criminal syndicate, has pleaded guilty to various criminal offences and will face five years of imprisonment.
