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Map shows how FBI’s encrypted phone platform ANoM infiltrated criminal syndicates all over the world

June 9, 2021

The FBI has released a map showing where its encrypted phone platform was used all over the world, bringing down hundreds of alleged criminals.

Operation Trojan Shield.

That is the apt name the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States gave to an operation that has spanned years and brought down alleged criminal syndicates all over the world.

In Australia, the large-scale investigation was named Operation Ironside, which resulted in the arrest of 224 people on 526 charges – with more to come.

Hundreds of other arrests have also been made across Europe and in the US.

The alleged offenders were arrested after the FBI infiltrated more than 300 syndicates in more than 100 countries – including mafia and bikies – via a legal encrypted device company the FBI created called ANoM, which was unknowingly promoted by criminal groups.

ANoM is described by the FBI as a “hardened encrypted provider, which sells encryption services and devices to transnational criminal organisations to facilitate illegal activity”.

There was estimated to be at least 9500 ANoM devices in the world.

The FBI has released a map showing countries with active devices as of May this year – and it shockingly covers most of the globe.



Map showing the countries with active devices as of May this year

A federal grand jury indictment in San Diego has also been unsealed, showing 17 defendants accused of distributing encrypted communication devices to criminal syndicates.

Among them are Australians Domenico Catanzariti, who is allegedly an administrator of the ANoM network, and Edwin Harmendra Kumar, who is allegedly a distributor of the network to criminal end users.

Administrators can initiate new subscriptions and remotely wipe devices, while influencers are allegedly “well-known crime figures who wield significant power and influence over other criminal associates”.

Other Australians who live overseas include Baris Tukel and Erkan Yusef Dogan, who both live in Turkey and are allegedly distributors and influencers, Shane Geoffrey May, who lives in Indonesia and is allegedly a distributor, and Osemah Elhassen, who lives in Colombia and is allegedly a distributor.

Distributors receive payment for ongoing subscription fees, provide second level support and can also remotely wipe devices.

The remaining 11 defendants are citizens of Turkey, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, the United Kingdom, Serbia and New Zealand.

They are all accused of conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars.

“This was an unprecedented operation in terms of its massive scale, innovative strategy and technological and investigative achievement,” Acting US Attorney Randy Grossman said.



The lengths some alleged criminals went to

Agents catalogued more than 27 million messages between users around the world, with alleged criminals openly discussing drugs, money laundering and threats of violence.

Some users allegedly negotiated drug deals and sent pictures, including one alleged instance of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine concealed in shipments of pineapples and bananas and in another case the use of tuna cans.

In one conversation, two people discuss dumping a shipment of drugs into the ocean so it can be picked up.

“I have a cargo ship with captain on side too, they want to throw over load as they leave,” one person said.

The other person then replies they can “definitely catch it” and explains his fee.

In an unrelated discussion, three people talk about getting paid for a shipment and use code names – Pontiac, Pidgeon and Keyser Soze, the fictional character played by Kevin Spacey in the film The Usual Suspects.

Pidgeon apologises for his delay in replying due to a “bad flu” and explains the rate is “65k per coin”.

Pontiac says he hopes the flu is not Covid and he will await the money.





Alleged phone conversations and The ANoM app as it appears on the screen of a smartphone in Paris

TOTAL FIGURES FROM THE WORLDWIDE INVESTIGATION:
  • 800 arrests;
  • More than 8 tonnes of cocaine seized;
  • 22 tonnes of marijuana seized;
  • Two tonnes of methamphetamine/amphetamine seized;
  • Six tonnes of precursor chemicals seized;
  • 250 firearms seized;
  • More than $48m in various worldwide currencies seized; and
  • More than 50 clandestine drug labs dismantled.
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