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Volume 22
April 2018 Edition
“Without their cooperation, commitment and shared sin-
gular drive, Australian law enforcement agencies would
not be announcing this significant result today.”
Australian agencies involved in this investigation
include:
• The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
• The New South Wales Crime Commission
• State police from New South Wales, Victoria,
Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia
• The Australian Tax Office and financial intelligence
agency AUSTRAC
Assistant Commissioner Jim Gresham, RCMP
“This investigation is a prime example of law enforcement The charges and allegations contained in an indictment
agencies from around the world working together to
identify, investigate and charge people involved in trans- or complaint are merely accusations, and the defendants
are considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.
national criminal activity,” says Assistant Commissioner
Jim Gresham, RCMP Criminal
Operations Officer, Investigative
Services and Organized Crime.
“We remain committed to inves-
tigating and disrupting these
illegal activities that adversely
affect each of our communities.”
This case is the result of ongo-
ing efforts by the Organized
Crime Drug Enforcement Task
Force (OCDETF), a partnership
that brings together the com-
bined expertise and unique
abilities of federal, state and
local law enforcement agen-
cies.
The principal mission of the OC-
DETF program is to identify, dis-
rupt, dismantle and prosecute
high-level members of drug
trafficking, weapons trafficking
and money laundering organi-
zations and enterprises.
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