Prime Minister Scott Morrison was joined by Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw to brief us on the 'most significant operation in policing history'. We've broken it down into the most important bits.
] passed in 2018 — that's that legislation that we have here in Australia, in combination with legal authority from the FBI. So there were legal authorities used in relation to this app.So the FBI had the lead on this. We provided a technical capability to be able to decrypt those messages.Initially, the FBI could not analyse what was being communicated. That's what the FBI said?We worked in partnership and we provided a technical capability to be able to do that.
We were able to, with the cooperation of that particular state police force, take out that individual before they were able to do that.We were able to get that individual off the street.While we're only hearing about the sting now, it's been going on for years."There was probably about 100 relevant arrests over the last couple of years in relation to this operation.
"The other thing that we learnt is that they actually do a lot of business behind each other's backs, including the presidents of various groups and organisations, for personal wealth. "Because there's no doubt going to be some tension within the whole system about who owes what drug debt and so on.Aussie drug trafficker 'probably' marked
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