Operation Global Shield: FBI Operated ANOM Sting Nets Over 800 Arrests and 32 Tons of Drugs
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The FBI Secretly Ran the Anom Messaging Platform, Yielding Hundreds of Arrests in a Global Sting. Photo: AP News |
The operation known as Trojan Shield led to police raids in 16 nations. More than 800 suspects were arrested and more than 32 tons of drugs — including cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines, and methamphetamines — were seized along with 250 firearms, 55 luxury cars, and more than $148 million in cash and cryptocurrencies.
The seeds of the sting were sown in 2018 when law enforcement agencies took down a company called Phantom Secure that provided customized end-to-end encrypted devices to criminals, according to court papers. Unlike typical cell phones, the devices don’t make phone calls or browse the internet — but allow for secure messaging. As an outgrowth of the operation, the FBI also recruited a collaborator who was developing a next-generation secure messaging platform for the criminal underworld called ANOM. The collaborator engineered the system to give the agency access to any messages being sent.
Since October 2019, the FBI has cataloged more than 20 million messages from a total of 11,800 devices — with about 9,000 currently active. Photo: 7News |
ANOM Platform
The FBI, in conjunction with law enforcement partners, secretly built into Anom the ability to covertly intercept and decrypt the messages being sent through the service’s system. In court filings, the bureau detailed extensive conversations about narcotics trafficking, cryptocurrency transactions, cash smuggling, corruption and other illicit activity flowing through Anom’s systems. The FBI collaborator effectively created a “blind copy” channel so that every single message sent by ANOM users ended up on a server run by the agency, court documents say.
Australian fugitive and alleged drug trafficker Hakan Ayik |
The operation known as Trojan Shield led to police raids in 16 nations. More than 800 suspects were arrested and more than 32 tons of drugs. Photo: Australian Federal Police |
Worldwide Arrests
Narcotics smugglers in South America allegedly used a banana distributor and an Ecuadorean tuna company, for example, to smuggle narcotics to Asia and Europe—in part by bribing port officials, U.S. authorities said in court documents. Belgian authorities seized 1,523 kilograms of cocaine bound for Antwerp based on leads from monitoring Anom messaging. Hollowed-out pineapples and refrigerated fish were also used to conceal contraband, “we were actually able to see photographs of hundreds of tons of cocaine that were concealed in shipments of fruit,” authorities said.
Finnish police said Tuesday that nearly 100 people have been detained and more than 500 kilograms (half a ton) of drugs confiscated, along with dozens of guns and cash worth hundreds of thousands of euros (dollars).
European police last year delivered a major blow to organized crime after cracking an encrypted communications network, known as EncroChat, used by criminal gangs across the continent.
Source: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2021/06/operation-global-shield-fbi-operated.html
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