Over the course of six months, Interpol has intercepted about $83 million of stolen money from flowing into the scammers’ accounts. The coordinated operation named HAECHI-I was started last year to demolish the various cyber crimes happening in the Asia-Pacific region. Over the course, Interpol has made hundreds of arrests and bank accounts frozen.
Interpol in Action
The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has reportedly seized a large cybercrime operation. From September 2020 to March 2021, Interpol has intercepted about $83 million of stolen funds from transferring into fraudsters’ bank accounts.
Online financial crime is fundamentally global and fraudsters attempt to exploit the borderless nature of the Internet by targeting victims in other countries or transferring their illicit funds abroad, explains INTERPOL Director of Organized and Emerging Crime Ilana de Wild. pic.twitter.com/YYQoKgzT6D — INTERPOL (@INTERPOL_HQ) May 27, 2021
