Crime Interrupted

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Operation Amorgos

July 20, 2025 • 58 mins

When 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 major players on the international drug scene.

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Operation Buxtehude

June 22, 2025 • 47 mins

When 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 cocaine, but no one could believe just how much.

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Operation Beaufighter

June 15, 2025 • 55 mins

The 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 of millions on luxury cars, boats, and mansions.

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Operation Crystalfields

June 8, 2025 • 50 mins

A 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 later. Her mother was charged with coercing her into a forced marriage.

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Operation Balah

June 1, 2025 • 54 mins

When 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 against the best of the best at AFP Cybercrime.

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Operation Castrum

May 25, 2025 • 50 mins

When 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 urgent when they learn the men had purchased hunting knives.

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Operation Collage

September 7, 2023 • 58 mins

When 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 transference of drugs to a smaller vessel. What followed was a perilous five-day boat chase through the high seas.

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Operation Birks

August 10, 2023 • 49 mins

An 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 against time to stop millions of dollars in theft, the team had to unravel a complex web of false accounts to find how the syndicate was exploiting vulnerabilities in the system. Burner phones and a kebab order led them to a surprisingly young culprit.
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Operation Boscobel

July 13, 2023 • 63 mins

When 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 tens of millions of dollars. From off-the-book payments to clandestine collections of money in white envelopes, Operation Boscobel investigators were there to document it all. A dedicated team put together literally a truck-load of evidence. In the wake of t...

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Operation Blare

June 9, 2023 • 50 mins

When 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 message to Australian businesses – pay bribes at your own risk.

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Operation Caulis

May 11, 2023 • 56 mins

When the Australian Education Department noticed huge fortnightly claims for childcare under their fully-subsidised grandparent scheme, they suspected fraud and called in the AFP. The scheme they uncovered was beyond belief.

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Operation Kastelholm

April 13, 2023 • 59 mins

When 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.

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Operation Middleham

March 10, 2022 • 56 mins

In 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 hostile activities.

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Operation Okesi

March 3, 2022 • 52 mins

Operation 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.

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Operation Ascalon

February 24, 2022 • 56 mins

When 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 disturbing pattern of behaviour by the offender that quickly lured over a hundred unsuspecting young victims.

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Operation Streambank

February 17, 2022 • 61 mins

When 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. In Operation Streambank we learn how the AFP worked with international partners to get Des back to Australia safely.

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Operation Boone

February 10, 2022 • 58 mins

Operation Boone details the AFP investigation that brought down an offender who created websites to sell stolen usernames and passwords to access multiple online subscriber services. Unsuspecting law-abiding citizens suddenly found their services could be hacked and accessed illegally.

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Operation Kitrino

February 3, 2022 • 73 mins

In Operation Kitrino, the AFP investigated a well-established human trafficking syndicate operating within the brothel industry in Melbourne. It took months to locate the syndicate head who was targeting mostly Korean women who found themselves quickly trapped in debt bondage and had no escape. Lured by the opportunity to clear their debt… but at what cost?

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Crime Interrupted

Episodes

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Operation Beaufighter

Operation Crystalfields

Operation Balah

Operation Castrum

Operation Collage

Operation Birks

Operation Boscobel

Operation Blare

Operation Caulis

Operation Kastelholm

Operation Middleham

Operation Okesi

Operation Ascalon

Operation Streambank

Operation Boone

Operation Kitrino

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Operation Amorgos

Operation Buxtehude