🃏 🎴 651 cybercriminals arrested in one operation! But more than this,AFRIPOL and INTERPOL's Operation Red Card 2 is a model for cutting cyberfraud and cybercrime at its roots.
⛓️💥 Interfere with recruitment.
🤖 Take criminals’ technology
💸 Seize assets
🚓 Arrest and prosecute
The seven-week operation, run across 16 countries in Dec 2025 – Jan 2026, was supported by research and intelligence from the World Economic Forum Cybersecurity-hosted #cybercrime Atlas. More details in the comments.
It led to arrests, seizure of technical infrastructure and, importantly - the disruption of the criminal recruitment pipeline that supports organised and high-volume phishing, identity fraud and fake crypto investment schemes.
⚖️ More than 1,200 victims were identified and the process of helping them obtain justice can now begin.
I’m proud that expertise and Intelligence from the Cybercrime Atlas supported this operation across 16 African countries. 🌍
👟 What also matters is consistency. Operation Red Card 2 is hot on the heels of major joint AFRIPOL and INTERPOL operations in 2025 like Serengeti 2.0, also supported by the Cybercrime Atlas.
🌍 🌎 🌏 The level of coordination this takes is mighty and congratulations to the team at INTERPOL’s Cybercrime Directorate and its leadership Neal Jetton for making this happen (again).
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