CANBERRA, ACT, May 18 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:

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The AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) has secured the forfeiture of more than $4.5 million worth of assets, including a Queensland waterfront mansion, luxury car and Bitcoin, after identifying them as suspected proceeds of crime.

The District Court of Queensland last month (April, 2025) ordered the assets be forfeited to the Commonwealth under the Proceeds of Crime Act (Cth), following the resolution of Operation Gouldian, an investigation into stolen cryptocurrency and cyber hacking.

A CACT investigation began in September, 2018, after AUSTRA...