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Editor's note: Images are available via Hightail More than $1.8 million cash seized from a Melbourne drug trafficking syndicate has been forfeited to the Commonwealth as proceeds of crime as a result of a joint Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police investigation.

***UPDATE: The 59-year-old has today (11 December, 2021) been extradited from Victoria to Queensland. Footage available*** A wanted fugitive who failed to appear before a Sydney Court six months ago has been arrested in Victoria by a highly-skilled AFP fugitive strike team.

Editor’s Note: Vision of the cash seizure is available via Hightail. Two Malaysian nationals have been charged following an Australian Federal Police-led Taskforce Vanguard investigation that resulted in the seizure of $350,000 in cash.

Editor’s note: Radio grabs from Acting Commander Cybercrime are available via Hightail. Seventeen Australians have been charged under a global money-laundering sting led in Australia by the AFP, which has also prevented $2.6 million of dirty cash washing through the country’s financial institutions.

Editor’s note: Images from the arrest are available via Hightail An alleged clandestine illicit drug laboratory has been dismantled in Cairns and a 20-year-old Trinity Park man is scheduled to face Cairns Magistrates Court today (December 7) charged with importing a dangerous drug.

Editor’s note: Images of drug testing and deconstruction can be downloaded via Hightail The AFP is warning cocaine seized in Australia is testing positive for dangerous animal worming agents and a pharmaceutical that was withdrawn decades ago for causing cancer.

The Australian Federal Police-led ThinkUKnow program continues to deliver online child safety education and awareness presentations to schools and organisations, with almost 200,000 students reached during 2020-21.

The Australian Federal Police are utilising a new technology that opens a new world of forensic DNA testing for criminal investigation.

A Sydney man, 64, who travelled to the Philippines to sexually abuse children has been sentenced to eight years and 10 months’ imprisonment for producing child abuse material and charges associated with child sex tourism.

A 60-year-old man who shared child abuse material online was sentenced to four years and two months’ imprisonment by the Dubbo District Court yesterday (3 December 2021).