CANBERRA, ACT, March 7 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
The seizure of two mobile phones in a small Swedish town has exposed a criminal architecture stretching across Europe, Asia and Australia. On 4 March, 2026, coordinated actions in Spain, Sweden and Thailand struck key nodes of this network, building on earlier operational activity in Australia.
Forensic analysis of the devices led international law enforcement to multiple, interconnected organised crime networks allegedly involved in large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering.
The scale and structure of the criminal ecosystem only emerged once investigators unlocked the data inside the devices.
Led by Swedish authorities and known as Operation...