8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (7)
#18089893 at 2023-01-06 18:23:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22173: Chip Roy is about to cave! Edition
UAE action leads to arrest of people smuggling kingpin in Sudan
LYON, France - A notorious people smuggler, known for his particularly cruel and violent treatment of migrants, has been arrested in Sudan thanks to swift action by the United Arab Emirates, based on information shared via INTERPOL.
Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam was the subject of two INTERPOL Red Notices, by Ethiopia and the Netherlands, for migrant smuggling, human trafficking and other related crimes. He is wanted for heading a major criminal organization behind the kidnapping, extortion and murder of East African migrants.
The Eritrean national had been on INTERPOL's radar since 2019 and is believed to have smuggled and trafficked thousands of victims.
In March 2022, intelligence gathered by INTERPOL's Human Trafficking and Smuggling of Migrants unit prompted a task force meeting with participants from Ethiopia, Sudan, The Netherlands, UAE, Europol and Regional Operational Centre in support of the Khartoum process and the African Union Horn of Africa Initiative (ROCK). Officers explored analytical gaps, progressively closing in on the fugitive and his associates.
This extensive collaboration generated a new batch of intelligence, allowing UAE authorities to conduct a thorough investigation of his network and family members, identifying money laundering activities and leading to Sudan.
His location and arrest will deal a significant blow to a major smuggling route towards Europe and protect thousands more from being exploited at the hands of the crime group.
Speaking about the arrest, Brigadier Saeed Abdullah al Suwaidi, Director General, Federal Anti-Narcotics General Directorate of the UAE's Ministry of Interior said: "Thanks to the professionalism and dedication of our police officers, the world's most wanted human trafficker will no longer be able to commit his despicable actions. The UAE will continue to deploy our full operational capabilities to protect vulnerable communities from this horrific exploitation."
Stefan Schrander, Warrant Officer, Royal Netherlands Marechaussee welcomed the arrest, adding that he had been on the Dutch National Most Wanted List since October 2021. "The Royal Marechaussee is grateful for the effective cooperation in this investigation with various countries coordinated through INTERPOL.
"This successful cooperation has already resulted in the extradition by Ethiopia last year of a close associate of his and is now followed by a major arrest. He will have to face justice for his criminal activities, including the smuggling of thousands of victims under degrading and violent conditions," concluded Mr Kolkman.
Demelash Gebremichael, Commissioner General of the Ethiopian Federal Police recognized the efforts of officers who worked day and night to follow up on leads generated by the task force: "This tremendous effort has led to the arrest of an international criminal sentenced to life in prison in Ethiopia. It is a notable success."
Stephen Kavanagh, INTERPOL Executive Director of Police Services added: "This is a testament to the INTERPOL network and what can be achieved when countries work together. In today's world, it is quite simply the only way to stop criminals whose repeated cruelty strips people of their dignity.
"More than ever, we are committed to identifying all of the members in this smuggling ring, and any others that viciously exploit people seeking a better life," said Mr Kavanagh.
More arrests are expected as part of ongoing investigations and as coordination continues with several INTERPOL member countries.
https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2023/UAE-action-leads-to-arrest-of-people-smuggling-kingpin-in-Sudan
#17696349 at 2022-10-17 19:02:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21656: Midterms Approaching PA is FLipped Call to Dig on Fetterman Edition
International crackdown on West-African financial crime rings
The INTERPOL-coordinated operation, yielding more than 70 arrests, confirms the global footprint of Black Axe and similar organized crime groups.
Lyon, France: Behind the headlines that emerged earlier this month on the arrest of two suspected online scammers in South Africa lies a global police operation coordinated by INTERPOL.
Codenamed Operation Jackal, the joint law enforcement effort mobilized 14 countries across four continents in a targeted strike against Black Axe and related West-African organized crime groups.
Operation Jackal marks the first time INTERPOL has coordinated a global operation specifically against Black Axe, which is rapidly becoming a major security threat worldwide.
Black Axe and similar groups are responsible for the majority of the world's cyber-enabled financial fraud as well as many other serious crimes, according to evidence analyzed by INTERPOL's Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre (IFCACC) and national law enforcement.
In South Africa alone, the two suspects arrested were wanted for online scams that extracted USD 1.8 million from victims.
Lifeblood of organized crime
Over one coordinated 'action week' (26-30 September), police worldwide launched enforcement operations against individuals linked to the Black Axe group, arresting suspected criminal operators or money mules, raiding and shutting down premises and seizing assets related to ongoing cases.
Two INTERPOL operational support teams were also deployed to South Africa and Ireland respectively to help coordinate international law enforcement teams on the ground. In Italy, the Carabinieri made three arrests in Campobasso within the framework of the operation.
In total, the operation resulted in:
EUR 1.2 million intercepted in bank accounts
75 arrests
49 property searches
7 INTERPOL Purple Notices, detailing criminal modus operandi
6 INTERPOL Red Notices, issued for internationally-wanted fugitives
"Illicit financial funds are the lifeblood of transnational organized crime, and we have witnessed how groups like Black Axe will channel money gained from online financial scams into other crime areas, such as drugs and human trafficking. These groups demand a global response," said Stephen Kavanagh, Executive Director of Police Services, INTERPOL.
Lavish lifestyles
The immense quantity of assets seized, including 12,000 SIM cards, have provided new investigative leads for law enforcement, generating 13 analytical reports and allowing police to identify more than 70 additional suspects.
The lavish lifestyles and greed of many suspects - allegedly paid for by defrauding members of the public of their savings and other criminal activities - was on clear display at the scenes of their arrest. Various luxury assets were seized, including a residential property, three cars and tens of thousands in cash.
The operation also saw INTERPOL successfully deploy its new global stop-payment mechanism known as the Anti-Money Laundering Rapid Response Protocol (ARRP), currently in its pilot stage. Used within the framework of INTERPOL's Global Financial Crime Task Force, the ARRP enables member countries to quickly intercept illegal proceeds of crime.
"The ARRP is a game-changer in the fight against global financial crime, where speed and international cooperation are crucial to intercepting illicit funds before they disappear into the pockets of money mules abroad," said Rory Corcoran, Director of IFCACC. "INTERPOL's Global Financial Crime Task Force has shown remarkable effectiveness in disrupting illicit financial flows, bringing together cyber and finance experts across sectors to track and cut off criminal money trails."
https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2022/International-crackdown-on-West-African-financial-crime-rings
#17506074 at 2022-09-06 18:50:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21459: Comfy Dayshift Activated Edition
Asia: Sextortion ring dismantled by police
LYON, FRANCE: In June 2022, INTERPOL launched a public awareness campaign warning Internet users of a dramatic increase in digital extortion threats.
Under the banner #YouMayBeNext and supported by 75 INTERPOL member countries and 21 public or private entities, the campaign focused particularly on sextortion, ransomware and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
In a vivid example of the threat these attacks represent, international police action supported by INTERPOL has uncovered and dismantled a transnational sextortion ring that managed to extract at least USD 47,000 from victims. So far, the investigation has traced 34 cases back to the syndicate.
The cybercriminals contacted their victims, based mainly in Hong Kong (China) and Singapore, through online sex and dating platforms before asking them to download a malicious mobile application via a hyperlink to engage in 'naked chats'.
Little did the victims know that this app was specifically designed to steal their phones' contact lists. The syndicate would then blackmail victims by threatening to circulate their nude videos to their relatives and friends.
Anyone's nightmare
Thanks to reports from victims, law enforcement soon began to zero in on the perpetrators, establishing a joint investigation between INTERPOL's cybercrime division and police forces in Hong Kong (China) and Singapore.
"We conducted a proactive investigation and in-depth analysis of a zombie command and control server hosting the malicious application, which - along with the joint efforts by our counterparts - allowed us to identify and locate individuals linked to the criminal syndicate," said Raymond Lam Cheuk Ho, Acting Head of the Hong Kong Police's Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau.
In July and August, 12 suspected core members of the sextortion ring were arrested.
"I am convinced that no single police agency would have been able to achieve this result alone," Mr Lam said. "The international police collaboration through INTERPOL was absolutely crucial."
"Having a criminal access the most intimate aspects of your life and using this information against you to extort enormous sums of cash is anyone's nightmare - and the most frightening part is that anyone could fall victim to this type of crime," said Stephen Kavanagh, INTERPOL's Executive Director of Police Services.
"Sextortionists sometimes count on their victims feeling too much shame to go to the police, but reporting these crimes is often the first step to bringing these criminals to justice," Mr Kavanagh added.
Sharp rise in sextortion
Sextortion is when criminals coerce or trick their victims into sharing explicit images or videos, which are subsequently used for blackmail. A sharp rise in sextortion reports has been observed around the world in recent years, mirroring a rise in other types of cybercrime that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2022/Asia-Sextortion-ring-dismantled-by-police
#15876663 at 2022-03-16 18:47:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20077: The Ukrainian People Aren't Our Enemies Nor Are The Jewish People Edition
Latin America: Nine of the region's most wanted fugitives arrested in global operation
BUENOS AIRES: An operation coordinated by INTERPOL has led to the capture of nine of Latin America's most wanted fugitives and positively located several more.
Under the banner of the European Union-funded 'INTERPOL Support to EL PAcCTO' project, the four-day operation (1-4 March) brought together investigators from across Latin America and four European countries specialized in tracking down fugitives.
In a command centre established within INTERPOL's Regional Bureau in Buenos Aires, Argentina, INTERPOL coordinated intensive working meetings between the investigators aimed at locating and arresting a maximum number of fugitives on a list of priority targets established by the global police organization's Fugitive Investigative Support (FIS) unit.
The operational model effectively pushes international police cooperation into 'hyper drive', allowing investigators to exchange actionable information in real-time.
Wanted for a variety of serious crimes, including drug trafficking, money laundering and heading organized crime groups, all fugitives were subject to INTERPOL Red Notices, a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a wanted person.
For the first time, investigators from France, Italy, Portugal and Spain also joined the EL PAcCTO operation. Two of the nine arrests took place in France while two other fugitives were successfully apprehended in Portugal and Spain respectively.
"Each of these arrests is a success for our member countries. They not only tangibly make the world a safer place but demonstrate what can be achieved through robust international police cooperation," said Stephen Kavanagh, INTERPOL's Executive Director of Police Services.
"With operations like EL PAcCTO, INTERPOL aims to cast a police net so wide that no fugitive will be able to escape justice forever," Mr Kavanagh added.
https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2022/Latin-America-Nine-of-the-region-s-most-wanted-fugitives-arrested-in-global-operation
#14285148 at 2021-08-06 19:34:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18072: NO MOAR GLOBAL NOTABLES Edition
Guatemala: Global collaborative investigation nets suspected child sexual abuser
Zacapa, Guatemala: A suspected prolific child sexual abuser has been arrested by Guatemalan law enforcement in a police operation supported by INTERPOL.
In an investigation that began in February 2017, specialized law enforcement officers from around the world worked together through INTERPOL's International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database to identify eight child victims - aged approximately between seven and 17 years old - of a 45-year old offender operating on the dark web.
INTERPOL's crimes against children unit supported the Specialized Prosecutor's Office against Human Trafficking - part of Guatemala's Public Prosecutor's Office (Ministerio Público) to identify and locate the offender, a Guatemalan man taken into custody on 27 July.
The suspect has been charged with multiple offences, including human trafficking; production, distribution and possession of child sexual exploitation material; sexual exploitation in the context of travel and tourism; and drug possession.
National investigators from Australia, Brazil, France and Switzerland cooperated with INTERPOL over years to comb through the substantial amount of child sexual abuse materials produced by this single offender over a 10-year period and piece together his identity as well as those of his victims.
"The cross-border nature of the Internet invariably makes the crime of online child sexual exploitation an international one," said Stephen Kavanagh, INTERPOL's Executive Director of Police Services. "International police cooperation and information-sharing throughout all stages of an investigation is crucial to protecting children and holding perpetrators to account."
Over 26,000 victims identified
INTERPOL's ICSE database uses image and video comparison software to help investigators worldwide in the daunting task of identifying the victims, abusers and places that appear in such materials.
The database avoids duplication of effort and saves precious time by letting investigators know whether a series of images has already been discovered or identified in another country, or whether it has similar features to other images. It also allows specialized investigators from more than 66 countries to exchange information with their colleagues across the world.
To date, the ICSE database has allowed investigators to identify over 26,000 victims around the world, as well as nearly 12,000 offenders.
https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2021/Guatemala-Global-collaborative-investigation-nets-suspected-child-sexual-abuser
#14075000 at 2021-07-07 19:59:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17810: CENSORSHIP BY PROXY = Fascism Edition
Interpol: CyberCriminal 'Dr Hex' Caught in Morocco
Moroccan authorities have arrested a suspected cybercriminal allegedly responsible for online phishing and fraud campaigns that have defrauded thousands of victims since as early as 2009, Interpol said in a statement Tuesday.
'Dr Hex' - the suspect's signature name which he often left on webpages he had targeted - is accused of credit card fraud, defacing websites, targeting companies and banks with malware, and even developing 'kits' sold to other cybercriminals online, to carry out similar campaigns.
Among other things, these kits allowed their users to easily impersonate online banking sites and steal victims' bank details for financial gain.
His capture is the result of a two-year joint investigation, "Operation Lyrebird," carried out by Interpol, Moroccan police and cybersecurity solutions provider Group-IB, which established Dr Hex's involvement in campaigns against 134 websites between 2009 and 2018.
Interpol's Executive Director of Police Services, Stephen Kavanagh, called the arrest "a significant success against a suspect who is accused of targeting unsuspecting individuals and companies across multiple regions for years, and the case highlights the threat posed by cybercrime worldwide."
With cybercrime on the rise, last year Interpol launched two campaigns, #WashYourCyberHands and #OnlineCrimeIsRealCrime, to raise awareness of phishing campaigns and cyber threats among individuals, businesses and organizations.
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14778-interpol-cybercriminal-dr-hex-caught-in-morocco
#13329386 at 2021-03-30 14:47:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16886: Look here Vaccine Passport, Not here Border Child Trafficking Edition
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>https://www.calabrianews.it/video-ndrangheta-estradato-da-santo-domingo-il-latitante-marc-feren-claude-biart/
VIDEO- 'Ndrangheta: fugitive Marc Feren Claude Biart extradited from Santo Domingo
The fugitive from 'Ndrangheta Marc Feren Claude Biart, born in Rome in 1967, who was arrested just touched on national soil: this is a new important result of the 'I - CAN' (Interpol Cooperation Against 'Ndrangheta) project, promoted by the Central Criminal Police Directorate, led by Prefect Vittorio Rizzi, together with Interpol, which is the largest multilateral police cooperation agency to which 194 countries around the world belong.
The fugitive Biart was arrested last Wednesday, March 24, in the city of Boca Chica thanks to the meticulous research on open sources of the joint pool of 'I CAN' - where the State Police, Arma dei Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza work - with the collaboration of Interpol of the Dominican Republic and the work of the Italian Security Expert in Santo Domingo: he was subjected to an order of custody in prison issued in 2014 by the investigating judge of the Reggio Calabria court, as part of the 'Mauser' operation for criminal association aimed at drug trafficking in favor of the Cacciola di Rosarno clan, following the operation followed by the operational department of the investigative unit of the Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria,under the aegis of the district management of Reggio Calabria directed by the public prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri.
In Boca Chica, Biart was known simply as Marc: of a reserved nature, very shrewd in his movements and frequentations, for many, and especially for the large Italian community present in that tourist resort (near the capital Santo Domingo), I was a foreigner. Precisely these cautions made it possible that once he arrived in the Dominican Republic, over 5 years ago from Costa Rica, he remained a ghost for those looking for him. In Boca Chica, however, he had created, together with his wife, an Italian cuisine site on YouTube, where numerous recipe videos were posted in which there was a man, never taken in the face. The love for Italian cuisine has made it possible to follow the traces left on the web and on social networks, while that for tattoos to recognize in the fugitive that cook framed in the videos but always without a face.
And just today, the Interpol operational summit arrives in Italy for three days between Rome, Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria just under a year after the launch of 'I - CAN': a project that involves the Italian police forces and those of 10 countries around the world (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA), which, like Italy, have set up operational units dedicated to the fight against the 'Ndrangheta. Stephen Kavanagh, Interpol Executive Director Police Services - who is the deputy to Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock - will arrive in Italy today, accompanied by Cyril Gout (Director Operational Support and Analysis) and Roraima Andriani (Director Global Outreach and Regional Support) to the Steering Committee of 'I CAN' and for a visit to Calabria where they will meet, in addition to all the police forces,Giovanni Bombardieri and Nicola Gratteri, respectively head of the prosecutors of the District Anti-Mafia Directorates of Reggio Calabria and Catanzaro. Prefect Rizzi has the task of leading the delegation and offering an overview of how - at the intelligence, operational and judicial level - Italy is fighting the 'Ndrangheta enemy, with a global strategy born from the experience of blood and attack on institutions and the legal economy.with a global strategy born from the experience of blood and attack on institutions and the legal economy.with a global strategy born from the experience of blood and attack on institutions and the legal economy.