Tag: Australian Federal Police

Methamphetamine with a street value of $187-million was hidden in various consignments of goods, including kitchen bench tops and chandeliers.

Man pretended to be a teenage social media celebrity in order to blackmail girls into providing him with sexually explicit images.

Another senior executive charged by Federal Police in relation to alleged bribes paid to Iraqi officials to secure reconstruction work.

Both men are founding members of the Adelaide-based Descendants gang and have criminal records. Gang allegedly engages in drug-related crimes.

The man, who is from the NSW city of Albury, allegedly had violent Neo-Nazi views and had accessed bomb-making information.

Latest seizure of drugs worth an estimated $135-million and arrest of four people highlights the scale of the problem.

Man was one of three Victorians who aimed to steal around $5-million from the Australia Tax Office using an elaborate fraud scheme.

Australian and international law enforcement spent nine years investigating allegations of massive payoffs to Iraqi oil officials.

Large consignment of meth sent from Iran was concealed beneath fake grass, which was part of the tunnel set-up.

Cops say they are targeting the criminal economy by confiscating criminal assets and removing the profit from crime.

A prominent member of Melbourne’s international community has become to first person to be charged under new foreign interference laws.

Man sentenced to nearly 15 years in a Melbourne court this week. He is now the fifth syndicate member to get a combined 68 years’ jail time.

Two males aged 17 and 20 have been arrested in Northern Territory Outback communities for child abuse material.

Victim is said to have declined police assistance on several occasions, prior to being married and moving to WA, where she died.

Police say only a well-resourced organised crime syndicate would have been able to attempt a smuggling operation on this scale.

Ongoing investigation by AFP and state police forces results in many more charges against two men arrested in NSW in June.

Two sentenced over drug-trafficking ring bust by AFP in Melbourne. Two other gang members were also jailed this month.

If you use your essential worker status to smuggle drugs across borders we will arrest you, police say.

Intricate web of business operations netted alleged criminals $17-million in two years. Payroll money meant for ATO was diverted.

Follow-up and Images: The remains of a fair-haired 4-year-old is not that of Madeleine McCann.

On the day Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced new metadata retention legislation, leaked Coalition document says opponents will label it an ‘Internet tax’.

Australian Federal Police left a suitcase containing explosives at Sydney Airport for over a month.

Lily Allen tweeted a picture taken of her being handcuffed by Australian Federal Police as she stepped off the plane at Gold Coast Airport on her way to Splendour. But it's the cops who are in hot water.

The Australian Federal Police have helped crack a crime ring which streamed live internet videos of child sex abuse from the Philippines.

Australian Federal Police are warning the public about a scam where consumers ‘win’ an all expenses paid holiday, unaware they are being used as drug mules.

Australia’s corporate regulator insists it carried out through investigations into corruption allegations linked to the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Australian entertainer Rolf Harris has been rearrested and bailed again by UK police following further allegations of historical sex abuse.

Embattled entertainer Rolf Harris has made a rare public appearance at Hampshire's Wickham Festival on the eve of answering bail again over historical sex abuse allegations.