Spy phones 'in gangsters' back pockets' leads to more than 800 arrests worldwide

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A global sting in which organised crime gangs were sold encrypted phones that law enforcement officials could monitor has led to more than 800 arrests and the confiscation of drugs, weapons, cash and luxury cars.

Canberra/Amsterdam - A global sting in which organised crime gangs were sold encrypted phones that law enforcement officials could monitor has led to more than 800 arrests and the confiscation of drugs, weapons, cash and luxury cars, officials said on Tuesday.

Operation Greenlight/Trojan Shield, conceived by Australian police and the FBI in 2018, was one of the biggest infiltrations and takeovers of a specialised encrypted network. All defendants are foreign nationals outside the United States and eight of them were arrested on Tuesday, said Randy Grossman, acting US attorney for the Southern District of California at a press conference in San Diego. The others remain at large.

As a result, there was no attempt to conceal or code the details of the messages - which police were reading. Shivers said the FBI had been able to see photographs of"hundreds of tons of cocaine that were concealed in shipments of fruit".

 

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