Reports released on Tuesday revealed that for years the FBI has been secretly disguising secret communications between criminals in Anom, an application that was supposed to be secretly impenetrably encrypted and allowed the crime conspiracy out of the curious eyes of law enforcement.
The FBI had developed the app to fill the vacuum left by decryption and subsequent rejection of communication platforms such as EncroChat and SkyECC. The application grew to serve more than 12,000 encrypted devices used by criminal organizations in more than 100 countries.
“The FBI has provided the Finnish authorities with information that has made it possible to direct a proactive criminal investigation and launch several preliminary investigations. In Finland, the operations were carried out in close cooperation with the police, the investigating agency and Customs,” he said. Kimmo Sainio From KRP.
“Preliminary investigation relates to prevention or organized crime, and in particular drug offenses.”
The KRP said that while many of the investigations launched on the basis of a joint intelligence are still ongoing, intelligence services have already made it possible for police to seize 145 kilograms of marijuana and automatic firearms in the metropolitan area, for example. The preliminary investigation was recently completed and the case was transferred to the prosecutor for prosecution.
Another example of a successful intervention was a warehouse that robbed 3D-printed firearms near the center of Tampere.
“Number [of firearm parts and equipment] is very high in the Finnish context โ Hannu Sinkkonen, Executive Director at Customs, commented on the results of the track made for YLE on Wednesday. “Overall, this is a very rare case in both Finland and Europe.”
The FBI intercepted and processed a total of 27 million messages exchanged between approximately 12,000 Anom users between October 2019 and June 2021. It proactively shared intelligence with partner countries whenever an intelligence was considered to be related to a particular country by language or language. the country of residence of the users.
The crackdown at the beginning of the week was led by the FBI, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Dutch and Swedish police. 13 other countries were also involved, including Finland, and Europol.
Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, Deputy Executive Director of Europol, on Tuesday naked that the operation led to more than 700 house searches and 800 arrests in 16 countries.
The illicit goods seized include more than eight tons of cocaine, 22 tons of cannabis and cannabis resin, eight tons of synthetic drugs or synthetic drug precursors, and more than $ 48 million in various currencies and cryptocurrencies.
Swedish police have used information from messages exchanged on the platform to prevent more than a dozen murders since last fall. by Linda Staaf, Intelligence Manager of the Swedish Police Agency.
According to Australian law enforcement, they have prevented 21 murders.
Calvin Shivers, The FBI ‘s deputy director of criminal investigation, said officials were able to identify more than 100 threats to the lives or health of others in 18 months, leading to repression.
Aleksi Teivainen – HT
Source: The Nordic Page