Interpolによって調整されたFirst Light作戦2020により電話・インターネット詐欺犯を２万人以上を逮捕し、約160億円を押収したようですね。

こんにちは、丸山満彦です。

Interpolniによって調整されたFirst Light作戦2020により電話・インターネット詐欺犯を２万人以上を逮捕し、約160億円を押収したようですね。

● Interpol

・2020.12.09 More than 20,000 arrests in year-long global crackdown on phone and Internet scams

Targeting rising trends in telephone and online scams, Operation First Light intercepted over 150 million dollars in illicit funds.

First Light作戦は9月1日に開始され11月30日に終了し、

• 10,380カ所に踏み込む
• 21,549人のオペレーター、詐欺師、マネーロンダリング犯を逮捕
• 310の銀行口座を凍結
• 153,973,709米ドル相当の違法資金を押収

ということのようです。。。

この作戦は中国公安部が積極的に関与（例えば資金提供）しているんでしょうかね。。。2014年から行われているようです。。。シンガポールでなく、フランスのリヨンの本部（金融犯罪ユニット）ですね。。。

・過去のインターポールの記事

・2020.09.02 Phone scams targeted in INTERPOL-coordinated operation

Criminal network dismantled under ongoing Operation First Light

Operation First Light, first held in 2014, targets telecom fraud and other types of social engineering scams, as well as money laundering of the illicit proceeds. Launched in September 2019, some 37 countries and territories are participating in the latest edition to identify and locate illicit call centres engaged in the fraud scams.

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Organized by INTERPOL’s Financial Crime unit with support from regional policing bodies Europol and ASEANAPOL, the current wave of Operation First Light began in September 2019 and has been extended through March 2021 due to the COVID-19 crisis, to allow the participating countries sufficient time to exchange information, follow up on new intelligence and identify suspects.

・2016.12.30 INTERPOL operation targeting phone scams nets 1,500 arrests

More than 1,500 people have been arrested in an INTERPOL-coordinated operation targeting multi-million euro telephone and e-mail scams across Asia.

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Countries participating in Operation First Light 2016 included: Austria, China, Hong Kong (China), Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste and the United States.

・2015.12.17 More than 500 arrested in INTERPOL operation targeting phone and email scams

More than 500 people have been arrested and 15 call centres shut down in an INTERPOL-coordinated operation targeting multi-million dollar phone and email scams across the Asia Pacific region.

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Involving 23 countries, Operation First Light 2015 resulted in a series of raids across the region with the largest in Indonesia where police arrested 245 Chinese and Taiwanese individuals, and in Cambodia where 168 Chinese nationals were taken into custody.

Korean, Nigerian, Filipino, Russian and Taiwanese nationals were also among those arrested in China, Hong Kong (China), Korea, Thailand and Vietnam during the two-month long operation during which more than 30 suspicious call centres were identified.

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INTERPOL’s Operation First Light 2014 which involved six countries resulted in the arrest in Thailand of more than 20 individuals and the identification of several syndicate heads who had been generating tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits. Chinese police indicated a reduction of 40 per cent in telecom fraud as a result of the operation.

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