Multimedia: Multi-agency taskforce launched

Release Date: Tuesday, March 15 2011, 03:20 AM

Taking the profit out of crime is the aim of a new AFP-led taskforce targeting organised crime’s deep pockets.

The multi-agency Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce is a Commonwealth initiative committed to identifying and removing the profits derived from criminal activity.

It was officially launched by the government in a Brisbane aircraft hangar where an assortment of restrained luxury items, including planes, cars motorbikes and jet skis were on display for the assembled media.