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The Europol Podcast

Operation Greenlight Part 2: Action Day

The Europol Podcast

Europol

News, Government, True Crime

4.67 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

As law enforcement intercepts messages sent by criminals on ANOM, this episode explores what they did next with the evidence they gathered. We hear from a Superintendent in the Swedish Police who used intelligence from Operation Greenlight to target criminals who were importing and selling drugs in Sweden. We also hear from Europol’s Georgios Raskos, who worked closely with the FBI on Operation Greenlight as they prepared to take action against the criminals.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All hands on deck when we get this kind of opportunity and make it most of it and put all your efforts into it and we can make this results if we collaborate worldwide.

0:17.0

At Europol looking at the organized crime investigations we see definitely that internet and technology in general is changing even traditional forms of criminality.

0:26.6

Yeah, it was interesting.

0:28.6

Kind of running essentially two different businesses almost, you know, one being covert company and one being law enforcement.

0:36.6

So that was quite the balance.

0:40.4

Welcome to the Europol podcast,

0:42.3

the official podcast of the EU's Law Enforcement Agency.

0:45.8

In this series, we shine a light on some of the biggest operations

0:49.6

Europol has supported and how we continue to fight organized crime.

0:58.0

Operation Greenlight, Part 2.

1:02.0

Action Day In part one, we went behind the scenes at the FBI.

1:08.0

We spoke to Nicholas Chevron and Stephanie Stevens, two special agents with

1:12.7

decades of experience, who were behind Operation Greenlight, sometimes known as Operation

1:18.4

Trojan Shield. If you haven't listened to that episode, please go back and give it a listen

1:23.4

before continuing with this one.

1:30.8

So, we'll pick up the story where we left off.

1:36.9

The FBI have been diligently building the encrypted Anom messaging platforms and devices.

1:41.1

They've been intercepting messages sent by its criminal users,

1:45.0

aiming to catch them in the act and put dangerous people behind bars. The FBI have been assembling the intercepted information into intelligence packages,

1:51.0

which they then send to national police forces all over the world.

1:55.0

Those police forces will act on the intelligence and tackle the crime in their respective jurisdictions. Now, let's find out what happens when one of those intelligence packages is received by national law enforcement.

2:07.6

It's time for us to take a trip to Sweden.

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