CANBERRA, ACT, March 17 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
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More than $11 million worth of assets, including Rolex watches, Cartier jewellery and art by Brett Whiteley has been forfeited to the Commonwealth as suspected proceeds of crime after an AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) investigation.
The decision in the Supreme Court of Victoria grew out of AFP-led Operation Fuji, which focused on a large Middle Eastern organised crime syndicate's access to firearms, large-scale drug importation activity, and extensive wealth, as well as threats to life.
The investigation uncovered significant plots involving drug importations, including how they wer...