Overview

• Running June through August, the crackdown involved investigators from 18 African countries plus the United Kingdom under the AFJOC framework funded by the UK FCDO.
• Angola shut 25 illegal cryptocurrency mining centers, seized 45 illicit power stations and equipment worth over $37 million, and detained 60 Chinese nationals, with hardware slated to bolster power distribution.
• Zambia dismantled an app-based investment fraud that defrauded about 65,000 victims of an estimated $300 million, arresting 15 suspects and disrupting a related scam center tied to a suspected human trafficking network that yielded 372 forged passports.
• Authorities in Côte d’Ivoire broke up a transnational inheritance scam traced to Germany, arresting a primary suspect and seizing assets after reported losses of roughly $1.6 million.
• Cybersecurity partners provided data on suspicious IPs, domains and command-and-control servers that guided ransomware and BEC infrastructure takedowns, and Interpol says follow-up investigations remain active with additional arrests expected.