Crime Interrupted
by Casefile Presents
Latest episode
Operation Amorgos
Operation Amorgos
About this podcast
Crime Interrupted explores some of the biggest and most challenging cases handled by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Australia’s national policing agency. Presented by Casefile, the series covers cases including human trafficking, counter-terrorism operations, international kidnappings, drug crime, cybercrime and more. You will hear from the AFP officers who investigated these crimes, as well as members from domestic and international partners.
These are the real stories of the AFP. Everyday people, doing legendary work. Season 3 will be released from May 2025.
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Episodes
- Operation Amorgos · 58 min · Episode 18When the AFP gets word that over a tonne of cocaine is headed for Australian shores, they need to find creative and outlandish ways never done before to try and disrupt some…
- Operation Buxtehude · 47 min · Episode 17When a second-hand excavator was en route to Australia from South Africa, the Australian Border Force flagged it for a closer look. ACT policing suspected an importation of…
- Operation Beaufighter · 55 min · Episode 16The AFP and ATO uncover Australia’s largest tax fraud case, involving $300m. The two perpetrators were trusted businessmen and before the law caught up with them, they spent tens…
- Operation Crystalfields · 50 min · Episode 15A secondary school student spoke to the AFP about her concern she was about to be forced into a marriage. The marriage eventually went ahead, and she was murdered six weeks…
- Operation Balah · 55 min · Episode 14When millions of offensive emails flooded the inboxes of ordinary Australians in the lead-up to the 2020 elections, the AFP began a cat-and-mouse chase, pitting the offender…
- Operation Castrum · 51 min · Episode 13When the AFP learnt that two men were planning a terror attack on the streets of Sydney, they began a race against time to locate the two young suspects and stop them. It became…
- Operation Collage · 59 min · Episode 12When intel was received that a boat with nearly half a tonne of cocaine was headed toward Australian waters, the AFP, Customs, and state police monitored the journey and the…
- Operation Birks · 49 min · Episode 11An urgent cybersecurity fraud case landed on the desk of AFP investigators; a syndicate was stealing money from Australian superannuation and share trading accounts. In a race…
- Operation Boscobel · 1 h 3 min · Episode 10When the AFP joined a multi-agency taskforce to investigate security and vulnerabilities on the waterfront, they had no idea they would discover a huge national fraud involving…
- Operation Blare · 50 min · Episode 9When the AFP got intel on a case of foreign bribery, it wasn’t historic as they usually were; it was happening right then. Operation Blare was formed to stop it and send a…
- Operation Caulis · 56 min · Episode 8When the Australian Education Department noticed huge fortnightly claims for childcare under their fully-subsidised grandparent scheme, they suspected fraud and called in the…
- Operation Kastelholm · 59 min · Episode 7When four young men began planning a terrorist attack in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD, the Joint Counter Terrorism Team had just days to avert it…
- Operation Middleham · 56 min · Episode 6In Operation Middleham, counter-terrorism officers arrested five men in Northern Queensland before they were able to travel overseas to join the Islamic State group and engage in…
- Operation Okesi · 53 min · Episode 5Operation Okesi ran for more than two years. The AFP adopted a multi-agency approach to seize hundreds of kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of $360 million…
- Operation Ascalon · 57 min · Episode 4When the AFP was made aware of a sadistic online offender targeting one teenage boy and threatening blackmail, Operation Ascalon kicked into gear. The investigators uncovered a…
- Operation Streambank · 1 h 1 min · Episode 3When South Australian farmer Des fell in love with ‘Natacha’ in an online romance scam, he travelled more than 8,000 km to West Africa, facing danger from the moment he arrived…
- Operation Boone · 59 min · Episode 2Operation Boone details the AFP investigation that brought down an offender who created websites to sell stolen usernames and passwords to access multiple online subscriber…
- Operation Kitrino · 1 h 13 min · Episode 1In Operation Kitrino, the AFP investigated a well-established human trafficking syndicate operating within the brothel industry in Melbourne. It took months to locate the…
