In an encrypted international communication network underworld managed to infiltrate the FBI, Europol and Australian police, carrying out hundreds of arrests, seizures of drugs and money in order to hit organized crime.
As broadcast by APE-MPE, in the middle of 2018, a convicted drug dealer met with FBI agents in San Diego to offer, in exchange for reducing his sentence, access to the encrypted conversations of a vast network of international organized crime.
Thus began the company Trojan Shield (Trojan Shield) with the participation of 9,000 police officers, from 17 countries, which included the recording of 27 million messages from 12,000 telephone devices in 100 countries to detect the activities of more than 300 organized crime groups.
To date, more than 800 arrests and more than 8 tons of cocaine have been seized, 22 tons of cannabis, two tons of synthetic drugs, 250 weapons, 55 luxury cars and more 48 million in banknotes and cryptocurrencies, according to the Europol announcement, while more arrests and seizures are expected.
Operation Trojan Shield: The device that was not detected by the police
According to a court document – the testimony of an FBI special agent first published by Vice News -, “confidential source”, ie the drug dealer, had created a telephone device that could be used by criminals around the world without being detected by the police. It contained an application called ANOM that created an encrypted mobile communications network.
For at least for a decade, organized crime gangs used the network to organize drug trafficking; blows against opponents, dirty money laundering operations without being detected. One of the advantages of network telephones was that their contents could be erased remotely in case they fell into the wrong hands. The FBI infiltrated the network with its own devices.
Soon the business has expanded worldwide with the involvement of the police authorities of Europe, Australia and the USA to become one of the most important police investigations against organized crime in history.
Police services of many countries “Listened” and recorded the conspiracies of Italian organized crime, the Asian Trinity, motorcycle gangs, international drug unions, open negotiations, without codes, due to the security provided by the encrypted network. Tracking messages also provided information on cases of government corruption, officials and police services in many countries.
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