Interpol has announced its seizure of $130 million in cash and assets associated with a string of global cybercrimes.
Interpol has made public its seizure of almost $130 million worth of cash and virtual assets tethered to various cyber crimes and money laundering campaigns in an operation known as “HAECHI III”.
Millions Have Been Seized from Cybercriminals
Interpol has announced its seizure of just under $130 million in money and virtual assets via Operation HAECHI III. The operation concluded on November 23, 2022, after almost half a year of investigation.
Almost a thousand suspects have been arrested in relation to these cybercrimes, of which there were 1,600 identified across 30 countries. In an official Interpol statement, it was reported that “voice phishing, romance scams, sextortion, investment fraud and money laundering associated with illegal online gambling” were the focal crimes targeted in Operation HAECHI III.
On top of this huge seizure and string of arrests, over 2,800 bank and virtual asset accounts linked with financial cybercrime were blocked, as you can see in the tweet above.
Interpol’s Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre (IFCACC) supported the National Central Bureaus (NCBs) of the 30 countries involved in Operation HAECHI III, which also resulted in the publication of 95 notices and diffusions.
Operation HAECHI III May Have Caught Some Big Criminals
Among the 1,600…
