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A suburban railway station
in Sydney's west.

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Commuters head to
their platforms

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oblivious to the undercover

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police who are
taking up positions

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throughout the station.

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In this particular case we got
some information, in advance,

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that a meeting was
going to occur between

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those involved in the
drug supply side,

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and those involved in the
money laundering side

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and so we had information
that at that place there

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would be a transaction,
an exchange of cash.

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The man NSW Police were
watching is a drug dealer.

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He was at Clyde to hand
over $200,000 in cash

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to a money-launderer
he's never met before.

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Money laundering is the
backbone of organised crime.

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Money laundering is designed
to hide proceeds of

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crime, and the techniques
that are used are vast.

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(music)

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CCTV captured the meeting.

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The drug dealer and the
money mule had a clever

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method to confirm each
other's identity.

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One has a bank note
and the other has

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a photograph of its
serial number.

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They exchanged a token, which in

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this particular
case was a $5 note.

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That was checked against
the blackberry message,

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which the other party had
to make sure that it

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matched, and then the
two of them, the males,

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walked off together to
take part in the exchange.

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Shortly after that
they were arrested.

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The arrests led police
to a safehouse in this

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building alongside
Sydney's Darling Harbour.

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It was where a major
drug syndicate

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was storing a large supply of

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ice and ecstasy and millions of
dollars waiting to be laundered.

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What we found was $4,000,000 in
cash, 10 or 12 kilos of ice.

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So the $200,000 is a small
percentage of that.

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The money mule was Ali Naderi, a
41-year-old from Afghanistan.

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He was a bit player in a massive

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international
laundering operation

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that was helping
wash the profits

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of Australian organised crime.

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We're talking about the upper

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echelons of organised
crime here.

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We're not talking about
opportunistic crime, we're

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not talking about back
yard sort of operators.

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This is high volume,
very serious

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trans-national organised

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crime networks that are well
established and span the globe.

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There's no doubt
hundreds of millions was

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going from Australia
through that network.

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And there's also no doubt that
worldwide that network was

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responsible for billions of
dollars of money laundering.

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The money laundering
operation was

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run by this man Altaf Khanani,

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a Pakistani criminal who had
evaded capture for decades.

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Khanani was a bad dude in the in
the money laundering business.

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I think just by the
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amount of money he
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the network that he built ah
on six different continents,

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created an air about him
that he was an untouchable,

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he was somebody that could not
be grabbed by law enforcement.

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I always kind of liken him
to a James Bond villain.

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He fits the mould.

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He has a world-wide network,

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moves billions of dollars, has
all of this at his disposal,

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is the leader of a
transnational organisation,

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and is someone that the
world looks as a target.

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From his base in
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Altaf Khanani laundered drug

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money for some of Mexico's most
dangerous cocaine cartels.

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He also moved money
for terrorist

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groups responsible
for attacks in

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Mumbai in 1993 and in 2008 which

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together killed more
than 400 people.

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He laundered money for
Hezbollah, the Taliban

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and other extremist groups
including Al Qaeda.

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He was working and had
moved money for Hezbollah,

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ah the Taliban, Dawood
Ibraham and many others

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that ah obviously are
very, very bad people.

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This guy was laundering
money for anybody

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and everybody, he
didn't care why.

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Altaf Khanani was the number
one international controller

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as far as organised
crime and terrorist

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funding was in the
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and we knew that he was causing

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significant impact on
multiple countries

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throughout the world, and that's
why we had to take some action.

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This is where the
Australian operation

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to capture Khanani started.

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The Australian Criminal
Intelligence Commission, a

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secretive agency which targets
high-level criminals.

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It began as an investigation
into unusual international money

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transfers from small suburban

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operators in Sydney
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It was when we started to
investigate that and we

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started to seize money and
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that we then started
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up the tree and understand who

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was behind organising
these contracts

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and the movement of money.

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That's when time and time
again Altaf Khanani came up.

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As the extent of Altaf Khanani's
network emerged, Richard Grant

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ran the name past
his counterparts

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in the United States.

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We realised that the Drug
Enforcement Administration

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had an enormous amount of
intelligence on Khanani.

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The DEA had a significant
amount of the jigsaw.

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(hip-hop beat)

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For years the frontline
in America's

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long war on drugs
was here in Miami.

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Basically, it's
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can you get them
to make a mistake

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so that you can
collect the evidence

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necessary to get a prosecution.

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It's also home to a
specialist team of agents

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working for the US Drug
Enforcement Administration.

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Trying to outwit them, you know,
usually we have the advantage

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'cause we know we
are doing it you

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know, we know what they want.

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So, a phone call
from the Aussies,

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we're discussing the case

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and during those conversations
it was mentioned that

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there was a target
Altaf Khanani who was

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a large scale money
laundering target that

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Australia was looking at
for a for quite some time

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and they were asking if
we would be interested

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in assisting in them and
their investigation.

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When I heard the name and it

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registered and I was
like absolutely,

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we're you know of course
we're going to do it.

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(music)

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Rob Cassitta is head of
the DEA's Group 44 which

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conducts covert drug
investigations across the globe.

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We don't say no you know we're
Group 44 we just don't say no.

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We got outstanding agents in the

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group, outstanding
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And their passion to
go after the biggest

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and baddest violators
in the world.

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John Clayton, a Group 44
special agent, spent years

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targeting cocaine suppliers
across South America.

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The Drug Enforcement
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is an organisation
that targets the

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top criminals in the drug trade

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when you target the
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the main bosses in
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you basically you dismantle
those organisations 'cause when

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you, when you cut the head
off a snake, the snake dies.

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The DEA agents agreed to a joint

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operation targeting
Altaf Khanani.

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We go after the top tier
criminals and in this

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case Altaf Khanani was
a top tier criminal

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who dealt with
organisations that ah

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their business is
death and destruction

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and he assisted
them in completing

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those, those jobs on
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and he's a very, a
very dangerous man.

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They had decided on
Altaf Khanani as a

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target, now they needed
a plan to get him.

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(music)

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The intelligence trail
started here in

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Karachi, where
Khanani's family had

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long been notorious
for street-level

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gambling schemes and
currency trading.

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It's in this trade on foreign
currency that actually

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their the ah their meteoric
rise began to happen.

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Up until then, they had

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been middling and
two-bit players

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ah competing with
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ah sort of where you
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wares by shouting
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on the street and occasionally
scoring a big um a

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big client in the form
of perhaps a government

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servant or a rich
businessman who would need

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to whiten a large of
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Journalist Khurram Husain has

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followed Altaf
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He says that by the mid-2000s
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running one of the biggest
currency exchanges in Pakistan.

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A company called Khanani
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From any country to any country,

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if you wanted to
move money without

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ah leaving either a trace,

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without having your
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money, or giving
that money the aura

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of legitimately earned
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the people who would
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Khanani made his
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vast volume ah and
charging commission.

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His commissions were low,

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relatively low,
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And I guess they went up as
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eleven, depending on difficulty
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From his base in Karachi's

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financial district,
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exploited an ancient money
transfer system called Hawala.

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It's the first banking
system where used

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predominantly in the Middle
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you'd be able to
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ah to an individual who would

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keep a ledger and
you would be able

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to drop money off
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and he would then be
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or word back in the
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individual who kept another
set of ledgers and

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pay a person for you
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It's an ancient system
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it's quite- it's
probably one of the most

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effective ways of evading
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because there's really
not a paper trail.

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Khanani capitalised on an
extraordinary gift for numbers.

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He had uncanny ability
to recall information

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ah he could recall phone
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ah he um knew bank
account numbers, business

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names and again he had
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ah bank accounts and he
could he could recall from

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memory these numbers which
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The exchange company
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for an international
money laundry

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which surfaced now
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investigations
worldwide including in

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Birmingham, England
where this cash

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drop was caught on
police surveillance.

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Khanani was washing a
staggering volume of money.

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We would certainly allege that
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turning over between 14 and 16

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billion dollars US
annually a year.

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So that sort of gives you
the scale of the enterprise

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globally that the reach that
Altaf Khanani's network had.

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Senior Government
servants who may have

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accumulated large
amounts of money

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ah as ah taken as
bribes or kickbacks in

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various schemes,
rich businessmen who

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would have under-invoiced
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their imports and their exports.

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Drug dealers who
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drugs from here and then bring

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their money back but show it as

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legitimate income ah
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All manner of money
that dare not speak

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its name, and yet needs
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international boundary,
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people who could handle
that money for you.

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And they could do it so expertly
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the world would
be able to detect

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the movement of that money.

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(music and road noise)

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In 2008 the Khanani operation
almost came to a halt after

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dramatic raids in Pakistan and
the arrest of his twin brother.

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But the court case collapsed.

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It's worth remembering
that some of

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the most richest
and most powerful

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people in Pakistan
and institutions

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in Pakistan ah were
the clients of KKI.

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There was any number
of very powerful

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individuals who did
not want the light of

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day to be shone into
this racket for fear

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of their own identities
being revealed.

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And a very, very
large and a very

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wide spectrum of very powerful

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interests mobilised in order to
try and protect these people.

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There's an allegation
that a bribe was paid,

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but certainly some
of the legislation

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perhaps wasn't as strong as what

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it is today, and there's an

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allegation of political
interference.

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Suffice to say that those
charges didn't proceed.

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Altaf Khanani moved his
operation to Dubai,

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a notorious bolt-hole
for organised crime.

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He set up shop there which was
basically his headquarters where

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he operated and um sat over his
ah money laundering empire.

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Dubai is a black
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and ah especially in the

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money world, so it makes it
very easy to hide money there.

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From this corporate office
Altaf Khanani laundered dirty

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money from across the
globe, including Australia.

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Australia Khanani had
a client base ranging

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from outlaw motorcycle
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Comancheros, um, all
the way to Lebanese

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ah transnational groups
such as Hezbollah.

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It was very diverse
because um he

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was able to establish
a network of

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associates where, and
he was reliable,

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and he was fairly
quick, so all comers

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ah who wanted their
money moved ended

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up hearing about
him or getting to

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him, even sometimes
they didn't know who

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he was they were
using his network.

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Police believed
that almost all of

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the Middle Eastern
organised crime

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profits generated
in Australia were

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laundered by Altaf
Khanani's network.

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There was no-one else to go to.

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And the other people that they
did go to usually were an

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associate of his which he would
work in some way or another.

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Granted there are several
other players out there

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on the stage but Khanani
by far was the biggest.

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Open the door!

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Search warrant!

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Outlaw bikies in
Australia including

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the Lone Wolves were
a major client.

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They are involved in
large amounts of drugs.

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Drug trafficking,
drug importation,

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and involved in very large

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amounts of money laundering,
and using the money laundering

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system not just to facilitate
purchase of drugs, but also to

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launder the funds back into
assets in Australia and abroad.

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And when you say
large, give me an

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idea of how large we're talking.

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Hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Yeah Altaf Khanani had clients
in Australia that again,

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yeah would range from
outlaw motor cycle gangs

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ah to people identified as
being linked to extremists,

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so he you know in Australia
was like all over the world,

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he didn't care where the money
came from who it was for or why

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they needed it cleaned, he was
more than willing to do that.

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The extent of Altaf
Khanani's operations

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in Australia were
becoming clear in

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2013 when a courier for
the Mexican Sinaloa

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drug cartel flew
into the country.

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In October 2013, through
looking at the work of Khanani

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we identified a Mexican by
the name of Onix Mendoza

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who had been sent over by
one of the Mexican cartels

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to move the money on their
behalf for moving ice.

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He came to collect
drug gang profits and

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wash them through
Khanani's network.

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They were then using a
Vietnamese group to go around

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and launder that money,
and pick up the money.

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An AFP operation
followed Onix Mendoza to

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a quiet street in
Ringwood, Melbourne.

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Police watched as he
met an Indian man who

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was working for the
Altaf Khanani network.

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Onix Mendoza handed
him a suitcase

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from the boot of his car.

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And when the Indian man
was arrested police found

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it contained half a
million dollars in cash.

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Khanani's network ah was,

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it was kind of compartmentalised
in a manner that

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you know not everybody
knew everybody so

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one person would be
used as a cut-out

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who would deal directly
with Altaf Khanani

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and then that person would
reach out to someone

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in whatever country the
money was that needed to

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be moved and that
individual didn't

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know who Altaf Khanani
was directly,

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allowing him to
do these business

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transactions and
remain anonymous.

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(music)

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A week later police watched
as Onix Mendoza met

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an Italian man in the
middle of Melbourne's CBD.

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The man had flown into Melbourne
only 48 hours earlier.

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They used the signature method
to recognise each other.

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They used the serial numbers
on an Australian five

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dollar note, and those serial
numbers would be their

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introduction point to
actually confirm that that

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transaction is legitimate
between those two parties.

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(music)

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The AFP swooped again, arresting
Onix Mendoza and the Italian.

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Along with another
$500,000 they also found

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incriminating text messages
on the Italian man's phone.

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A day later he replied, denying
he was stealing the money.

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He said he was...

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This is an interesting case
because by following the money

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and working through the
Khanani network we identified

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Italian organised crime out
of the US, Indian money

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launderers, Vietnamese
individuals, and Mexicans.

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Altaf Khanani was a
very bad guy and

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he dealt with some
very bad people

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who did a lotta harm in this
world um so he a-a again,

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he had contacts in
ah Lebanon ah Iran,

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South America, Central
America, Australia

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and these were not your typical
businessmen, these were people

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involved in all sorts of things,
weapons trafficking, drug

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trafficking, terrorism finance
and so these were, these were

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the things that concerned
us the most about this guy.

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Richard Grant and
the Australians

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also persuaded the
UK, Canada and

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New Zealand to assist
in the operation

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to bring down Altaf Khanani.

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It was the first time the Five
Eyes intelligence network

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was mobilised against an
organised crime target.

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Khanani had been identified as a

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significant risk by a
number of different

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organisations, and they'd done

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their best to try
and take him on.

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It was only when we moved
forward with the work that we

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did with the Five Eyes that
we started to get the whole,

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five countries all working
together that you leverage off

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each other and it takes a
network to defeat a network.

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We'd been talking
with the Australians,

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we'd got some new
intelligence...

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The operation itself would
be run by the DEA in Miami.

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This is the business
in Dubai that Altaf

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Khanani is operating out of,
it's Al Zarooni exchange.

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The plan was for an elaborate
sting, using covert operatives.

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We have the undercovers
being briefed to

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make contact with Altaf
Khanani directly.

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The plan was to infiltrate
a DEA undercover agent

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into the Khanani
organisation, to establish

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ourselves as the highest
traffickers or money

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launderers that we can appear
to be to Altaf Khanani.

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It was then to develop the
evidence that we would

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then be able to indict him
in the United States.

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We were posing as
drug traffickers

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and we had money to be laundered

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and we solicited Altaf Khanani
to launder our money for us

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and you know greed is a powerful
tool and any time someone can

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make money in this world
they'll jump at the chance.

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Alright, let's give these guys a

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call and I'll show
you real quick.

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Undercover agents
across the world

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were organised to
set up a fictitious

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drug syndicate which
would contract

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Khanani to launder its cash.

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What time is it over
there did you say?

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It's like 7am.
-7am.

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It was Australia's ability
to infiltrate Khanani's

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network which was
critical to the plan.

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I had no scepticism that the
Aussies would be able to

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deliver it because they
showed us right off the bat,

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from the start of the

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investigation, that
they had a way

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to ah penetrate the organisation
and um working with

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us and our resources um we
knew from day one that, at

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least to my mind, that this
was going to be successful.

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To look like real drug
traffickers, they

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needed a substantial
amount of cash to launder

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into Khanani's network
and that's where the

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Australian taxpayer
came into the picture.

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Two federal law enforcement
agencies put up the money.

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This was one of the more

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interesting parts
of the strategy

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is then going back to our
CEO and pitching to him

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that we needed a quarter
of a million dollars,

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and we were going to give it to

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somebody that we
really didn't know,

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with the hope and the
promise that he would

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deliver that money
into another country.

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So, most police forces would
baulk at the fact that you'll

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lose $250,000 because that's
the risk that we were taking.

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Have to say that our CEO had
the view that we needed

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to be lawfully audacious
and that's what we did.

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So, we found $250,000
in the budget

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and fortunately at the time that

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we were doing that
the Australian

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Federal Police had come onboard.

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The AFP kicked in
another $1 million.

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The million dollars
that was provided

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by way of the Australian
Federal Police

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was actually utilised
to launder those

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funds in that reverse
transaction piece

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to identify how the
system worked,

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and the threshold for the
indictment to be realised

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in the US under their
legislation required

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that up to a million
dollars would be laundered

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before you could secure
that indictment.

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So when we get the money
from the Australians

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to go ahead and
start the operation

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ah it was very, it was a little

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nerve-wracking ah I
don't even keep my own

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cheque book, I let
my wife do that so

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now I've got another
government's money

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ah to use in an
operation so it was

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a bit nerve-wracking but...

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the plan that we had
in place was solid,

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we were confident it would work.

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(tense music)

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It was vital for a successful
prosecution that the

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undercover agents made contact
with Altaf Khanani directly.

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Trust is everything, so
we began conversations

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um we provided opportunities ah
to for Khanani to make money

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and then when it came
time where the rubber

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met the road, we actually
followed through

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and we gave him
what he needed to

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make ah the transaction
successful,

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so we gave him the money,
we gave him the accounts,

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we told him, we told
him who we were,

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we told him we were
drug traffickers.

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An undercover agent in Australia
called him personally.

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and gained Khanani's trust.

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The team prepared to hand over
the first bundle of money.

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The first cash
drop was critical.

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The DEA put $100,000 in
unmarked bills into a

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bag and gave it to their
undercover agent.

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He was meant to meet Khanani's
man in a car park in New Jersey.

494
00:26:05,140 --> 00:26:06,337
(music)

495
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,080
It was at a Dunkin' Donuts
up in New Jersey area.

496
00:26:11,137 --> 00:26:13,804
They met in the parking
lot and um our

497
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,920
undercover meets 'em
they confirm that

498
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,000
the token or the dollar
bill is the serial

499
00:26:20,060 --> 00:26:22,789
number's correct and
the exchange occurs.

500
00:26:22,830 --> 00:26:26,142
So that was that was the
first, that was the first job.

501
00:26:26,867 --> 00:26:28,330
Khanani had promised
to wire back

502
00:26:29,658 --> 00:26:31,165
the money minus his commission

503
00:26:31,205 --> 00:26:34,906
via a seemingly legitimate
business in the Middle East.

504
00:26:35,340 --> 00:26:37,840
Now the detectives
would have to wait

505
00:26:37,881 --> 00:26:39,681
to see if they really
had fooled him.

506
00:26:40,915 --> 00:26:42,200
Did I think it was going to go,

507
00:26:42,241 --> 00:26:43,869
yes 'cause I was
confident in the

508
00:26:43,910 --> 00:26:47,100
undercover, I was confident in
the case agents and the group.

509
00:26:47,413 --> 00:26:49,302
However, there's a level of

510
00:26:49,343 --> 00:26:50,908
anxiety when you're
managing it all

511
00:26:52,141 --> 00:26:55,529
ah that it's got to go
and there was a lot

512
00:26:55,570 --> 00:26:58,190
of sleepless nights
ah over a few months.

513
00:26:58,230 --> 00:27:01,630
Waiting for the money to
return was the worst part.

514
00:27:01,959 --> 00:27:04,618
It was the first time we've done
this sort of covert operation.

515
00:27:04,658 --> 00:27:06,724
You've got a number of
things going through your

516
00:27:06,765 --> 00:27:08,945
mind, not the least of which
is losing your $100,000.

517
00:27:12,811 --> 00:27:14,125
What's happening?

518
00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:16,574
After a tense five days
Rob Cassitta phoned

519
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,687
Richard Grant to give
him the good news.

520
00:27:20,830 --> 00:27:23,763
Khanani had wired back
the Australian money.

521
00:27:24,196 --> 00:27:26,241
The first one's
always special, and

522
00:27:26,282 --> 00:27:28,670
ah the I think I
sent him a text or

523
00:27:28,711 --> 00:27:31,154
a photo of ah the
money and I could

524
00:27:32,264 --> 00:27:35,772
feel the sigh of
relief down under.

525
00:27:35,872 --> 00:27:38,879
I got the phone call to say
the money's gone through.

526
00:27:38,919 --> 00:27:42,228
So thankfully my backside was
no longer in that sling.

527
00:27:42,704 --> 00:27:44,710
But the money had gone
through and the job

528
00:27:44,751 --> 00:27:46,849
was a success, so we
knew we were on a roll.

529
00:27:48,621 --> 00:27:50,621
With the first batch of
money through the cash

530
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,883
drops continued in Houston,
Atlanta and New York.

531
00:27:57,620 --> 00:28:01,128
It happened so quickly
and it was working

532
00:28:02,225 --> 00:28:03,518
um as we moved from city to city

533
00:28:04,836 --> 00:28:06,725
that I know there was
the moments where I was

534
00:28:06,766 --> 00:28:08,507
with the guys John and
the other guys in

535
00:28:08,548 --> 00:28:11,817
the office and it was
holy shit, this is

536
00:28:11,858 --> 00:28:15,148
working, we can do this
as long as we want to.

537
00:28:15,362 --> 00:28:18,372
It was kind of amazing to see

538
00:28:18,413 --> 00:28:21,213
how we can throw out
a state or ah an

539
00:28:21,254 --> 00:28:24,200
area where we needed
money picked up

540
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,194
and Khanani was able to
reach into his Rolodex

541
00:28:27,234 --> 00:28:30,571
and dial up somebody to
ah help us with that.

542
00:28:32,208 --> 00:28:35,177
Hello? Do you hear me?

543
00:28:37,073 --> 00:28:39,372
In one recorded
conversation Altaf

544
00:28:39,413 --> 00:28:41,817
Khanani revealed he was worried.

545
00:28:42,094 --> 00:28:43,273
Here is too much.

546
00:28:43,323 --> 00:28:45,398
You know everywhere
is too much problem

547
00:28:45,439 --> 00:28:47,058
for changing, now we have to do

548
00:28:47,099 --> 00:28:49,622
very, very, very
carefully, changing,

549
00:28:49,663 --> 00:28:51,973
because sometimes
they ask questions.

550
00:28:53,564 --> 00:28:57,293
At one point the operation
appeared to stall.

551
00:28:58,373 --> 00:29:01,107
There was a moment where we
were waiting I think up to

552
00:29:01,148 --> 00:29:03,487
twelve days for money to
come back and the undercover

553
00:29:04,710 --> 00:29:08,665
um who ah brilliantly
ah on his feet

554
00:29:08,706 --> 00:29:10,899
um rather than
threaten violence to

555
00:29:10,940 --> 00:29:14,276
Khanani which we
wouldn't do um utilised

556
00:29:15,610 --> 00:29:17,978
the threat of
violence against him.

557
00:29:18,018 --> 00:29:20,783
The undercover when he talks
to Khanani tells him hey,

558
00:29:20,823 --> 00:29:23,387
listen, if you don't
give me this money back soon,

559
00:29:23,428 --> 00:29:26,192
the cartel's gonna cut my head
off and use it as a soccer ball.

560
00:29:27,561 --> 00:29:29,666
And I think that got
Khanani's attention that um

561
00:29:30,847 --> 00:29:33,139
oh okay I you know I need to
move faster ah with this.

562
00:29:34,942 --> 00:29:36,874
The detectives needed visual

563
00:29:36,915 --> 00:29:39,371
confirmation it was
Altaf Khanani.

564
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,000
At the time what we
had was a number of

565
00:29:58,036 --> 00:29:59,995
conversations between
the undercover

566
00:30:00,036 --> 00:30:02,008
operative and Khanani
which were all

567
00:30:02,049 --> 00:30:04,050
recorded and they're
very damning.

568
00:30:04,626 --> 00:30:06,131
But at the time we actually

569
00:30:06,172 --> 00:30:07,596
couldn't put a
face to the voice.

570
00:30:08,632 --> 00:30:12,178
We had no physical meetings with
Altaf Khanani so to get the

571
00:30:12,218 --> 00:30:13,967
identification
confirmed ah it was

572
00:30:15,002 --> 00:30:17,518
decided to do a
Skype video call um

573
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,560
and that, that's
kinda what put us

574
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,720
over the top with
the identification.

575
00:30:22,211 --> 00:30:24,284
In the Skype call, the
undercover who was in

576
00:30:25,291 --> 00:30:28,299
Australia invited Khanani
to come and visit.

577
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,760
The agent told Khanani
he was calling

578
00:30:51,809 --> 00:30:54,242
about a new business
opportunity ...

579
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,600
He said his new
contact needed to

580
00:31:06,632 --> 00:31:08,864
move more money
more quickly ....

581
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,360
Khanani had no idea that
the noose was tightening.

582
00:31:40,412 --> 00:31:43,482
We had pictures of Khanani,
we knew what he looked like,

583
00:31:43,522 --> 00:31:45,133
we'd been talking to
him on the phone but

584
00:31:45,174 --> 00:31:46,629
to actually get a
picture of his face

585
00:31:46,669 --> 00:31:49,120
and him communicating to us

586
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:50,960
and the undercover
did a fantastic

587
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,280
job in when that
call was made,

588
00:31:53,326 --> 00:31:54,749
he basically rehashed all the

589
00:31:54,790 --> 00:31:56,884
transactions we had
done up to that point

590
00:31:56,924 --> 00:32:00,391
and Khanani confirmed every
one of 'em so, it was a

591
00:32:00,432 --> 00:32:04,367
great job by the undercover
and phenomenal evidence.

592
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,640
What's going through
my head is I still

593
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,680
go back to him being
some super villain

594
00:32:10,736 --> 00:32:13,237
and looking at that
video and he's

595
00:32:14,279 --> 00:32:16,352
sitting you know in the frame

596
00:32:16,392 --> 00:32:19,967
and just controlling you
know like a money empire

597
00:32:20,007 --> 00:32:21,881
um I thought it was
quite impressive

598
00:32:21,922 --> 00:32:23,851
that this guy had
all that going on

599
00:32:23,892 --> 00:32:25,993
and um he's been
doing it for that

600
00:32:26,034 --> 00:32:28,566
long he's good and
then it felt more

601
00:32:28,607 --> 00:32:31,757
like, we got you,
and ah I knew his

602
00:32:31,798 --> 00:32:34,435
time was ah soon
coming to an end.

603
00:32:35,603 --> 00:32:37,352
(music)

604
00:32:39,914 --> 00:32:43,675
After 36 days the operation
reached a critical point.

605
00:32:45,149 --> 00:32:47,747
The undercover told Khanani
he needed money picked

606
00:32:47,788 --> 00:32:50,692
up in Texas and Khanani,
as always, made it happen.

607
00:32:53,856 --> 00:32:56,394
This was where they had
another cash drop.

608
00:32:56,434 --> 00:32:58,359
And it's where they
hit the magic number:

609
00:32:58,402 --> 00:33:01,832
$1 million US dollars laundered
through the Khanani network.

610
00:33:04,108 --> 00:33:06,461
If he moved over a
million dollars US,

611
00:33:06,501 --> 00:33:08,788
then the penalties
were significantly higher

612
00:33:08,831 --> 00:33:11,816
and we wanted to move
over a million dollars, because

613
00:33:11,856 --> 00:33:15,589
that would reflect the level
of criminality that he was

614
00:33:15,631 --> 00:33:18,028
exhibiting and the impact he
was having on the countries.

615
00:33:19,818 --> 00:33:21,653
All the stuff pertaining
to the undercover

616
00:33:21,694 --> 00:33:23,276
drops is gonna be in this file.

617
00:33:23,317 --> 00:33:24,945
All the banking records
are in that one.

618
00:33:24,986 --> 00:33:28,691
Rob Cassitta and John Clayton
were closing in on one

619
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,899
of the world's biggest
money-laundering bosses.

620
00:33:32,537 --> 00:33:35,288
The US and Australian
detectives had successfully

621
00:33:35,329 --> 00:33:38,002
laundered more than a
million Australian dollars

622
00:33:38,042 --> 00:33:41,514
through Khanani's network, now
they needed to find a country

623
00:33:41,555 --> 00:33:45,619
where he could be arrested and
extradited to the United States.

624
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,080
Once we went to the lure and
capture phase we had to find

625
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,559
a place that ah Khanani would
be comfortable travelling to.

626
00:33:52,599 --> 00:33:54,908
We're developing the plan
like how are we gonna do

627
00:33:54,949 --> 00:33:57,392
this, how are we gonna how
are we gonna catch this guy

628
00:33:58,609 --> 00:34:00,316
and so we basically
drilled down to

629
00:34:01,345 --> 00:34:03,159
Panama, was a good
country for us,

630
00:34:03,454 --> 00:34:06,203
we do a lotta work
down there and they

631
00:34:06,244 --> 00:34:08,496
were they were interested
in helping us.

632
00:34:08,802 --> 00:34:10,499
(music)

633
00:34:11,925 --> 00:34:14,106
They needed to come up
with a way to persuade

634
00:34:14,147 --> 00:34:16,824
Altaf Khanani to get on a
plane and leave Dubai.

635
00:34:18,034 --> 00:34:20,906
The undercover started building
a story about his travel

636
00:34:20,946 --> 00:34:24,472
and down south of central
America and um that we had,

637
00:34:24,512 --> 00:34:26,181
we had more business as drug

638
00:34:26,222 --> 00:34:28,010
traffickers, we had
more business um

639
00:34:28,051 --> 00:34:30,073
that was happening there
in South America and

640
00:34:30,114 --> 00:34:33,052
that if Khanani could
come there and meet some

641
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,000
the cartel members is
what we would say, then

642
00:34:36,070 --> 00:34:38,368
we would be able to
give him more business.

643
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,040
The final sweetener was the
offer of a Panamanian passport.

644
00:34:56,842 --> 00:35:00,500
So, I think that was a too big
of a carrot for him to refuse.

645
00:35:01,650 --> 00:35:03,606
When he booked his
travel to Panama,

646
00:35:03,648 --> 00:35:05,603
he sent the undercover
his itinerary

647
00:35:05,644 --> 00:35:08,667
which was a big relief
and kinda gave us

648
00:35:08,708 --> 00:35:10,947
an idea hey this
guy's really coming.

649
00:35:11,125 --> 00:35:13,994
(music)

650
00:35:15,898 --> 00:35:19,264
The operation was about
to reach its climax.

651
00:35:19,932 --> 00:35:24,320
From an unmarked hangar at Fort
Lauderdale Airport in Florida,

652
00:35:24,434 --> 00:35:27,459
DEA special agent John
Clayton got ready

653
00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:30,720
to fly to Panama to
confront Khanani.

654
00:35:32,780 --> 00:35:36,103
Once Khanani was airborne
en-route to Panama

655
00:35:37,315 --> 00:35:40,595
and we were notified um I think
that was ah a big moment

656
00:35:41,611 --> 00:35:45,658
where we ah just knew, slight of
a fate of God, he was going to

657
00:35:48,104 --> 00:35:50,611
land in Panama and
um we were going

658
00:35:50,652 --> 00:35:53,007
to end this case at that point.

659
00:35:53,859 --> 00:35:56,099
(music and plane engine noise)

660
00:35:57,332 --> 00:35:59,833
Khanani flew in
expecting to meet the

661
00:35:59,874 --> 00:36:03,170
heads of a major South
American cartel.

662
00:36:03,291 --> 00:36:05,024
He was in for a shock.

663
00:36:06,338 --> 00:36:10,890
The DEA plane on the tarmac ah
surrounded by armed guard's

664
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,995
there's police, police
cars everywhere

665
00:36:14,035 --> 00:36:18,090
and um so we're brought into
the detention or holding area

666
00:36:19,772 --> 00:36:22,320
and Altaf Khanani's
brought out of his cell

667
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,820
and and then he has to sign
some paperwork and then he's

668
00:36:25,860 --> 00:36:27,311
turned over along with all his

669
00:36:27,352 --> 00:36:29,011
property, he's
turned over to us.

670
00:36:29,051 --> 00:36:30,677
He was kind of in
shock 'cause he you

671
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:32,480
know he was expecting
the big trip and

672
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,144
to meet all these big
players and so he

673
00:36:34,184 --> 00:36:36,055
had no idea that
this was happening.

674
00:36:36,097 --> 00:36:37,765
What's going through your head?

675
00:36:37,806 --> 00:36:39,235
I can't believe this
is really happening,

676
00:36:39,276 --> 00:36:41,195
this is ah this is a
pretty amazing moment

677
00:36:41,236 --> 00:36:43,185
um very happy that
the case has come to

678
00:36:43,226 --> 00:36:45,507
a culmination and
we've got this guy.

679
00:36:46,168 --> 00:36:50,089
Well the iconic photo for me
in all this ah in this whole

680
00:36:50,130 --> 00:36:52,852
investigation was
ah John Clayton

681
00:36:52,893 --> 00:36:54,527
putting the handcuffs
on Khanani.

682
00:36:57,261 --> 00:37:00,147
To me that just
summed up everything.

683
00:37:00,187 --> 00:37:02,578
It's everything we promised,
everything we said we were

684
00:37:02,619 --> 00:37:05,139
going to do, we delivered,
and I think we delivered

685
00:37:06,506 --> 00:37:09,479
in less than a year's time,
which to get a guy like

686
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,098
Khanani is yeah, I think
it's pretty remarkable.

687
00:37:12,326 --> 00:37:14,826
I immediately forwarded
it to the Aussie

688
00:37:16,173 --> 00:37:18,413
counterparts and ah said
it's done, basically.

689
00:37:18,889 --> 00:37:21,759
I remember, I think I'd
gone home at that stage,

690
00:37:21,799 --> 00:37:24,246
and I had my phone and then
suddenly the phone binged,

691
00:37:24,287 --> 00:37:26,538
and I looked down there
and there was a text with a

692
00:37:26,579 --> 00:37:28,205
photograph of Khanani

693
00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:30,405
surrounded by DEA
agents in cuffs.

694
00:37:30,445 --> 00:37:32,112
It was a wonderful thing.

695
00:37:33,082 --> 00:37:35,645
(music)

696
00:37:39,579 --> 00:37:43,152
Altaf Khanani was frog marched
to this very plane, a specialist

697
00:37:44,616 --> 00:37:48,348
DEA aircraft used for operations
across central America.

698
00:37:48,492 --> 00:37:52,591
After decades in the wild
financing the world's criminal

699
00:37:52,632 --> 00:37:57,664
kingpins Altaf Khanani realised
it was finally all over.

700
00:37:57,737 --> 00:37:59,137
He was going to jail.

701
00:38:00,054 --> 00:38:02,547
(music)

702
00:38:04,175 --> 00:38:07,723
Khanani was flown out of
Panama and back to Florida.

703
00:38:08,817 --> 00:38:11,416
As the wheels lift up and
when the plane takes

704
00:38:11,457 --> 00:38:13,905
off you can tell he's
he's starting to think

705
00:38:13,946 --> 00:38:15,912
about like what is,
what is really going on

706
00:38:15,953 --> 00:38:17,847
and so then he starts
asking us questions.

707
00:38:17,888 --> 00:38:19,793
Like ah you know well
what, what is it

708
00:38:19,834 --> 00:38:21,674
I can do to get out
of this situation,

709
00:38:21,714 --> 00:38:24,819
well unfortunately for him there
was no way to get out of this

710
00:38:24,860 --> 00:38:28,120
situation, this was the end of
the line for Altaf Khanani.

711
00:38:30,096 --> 00:38:31,160
(music)

712
00:38:32,105 --> 00:38:34,466
At the DEA headquarters he was

713
00:38:34,507 --> 00:38:37,035
finger-printed and
put in this cell.

714
00:38:39,586 --> 00:38:42,277
It was an immense sense of
pride in the people that had

715
00:38:42,318 --> 00:38:44,912
worked on this particular
matter for such a long time

716
00:38:44,959 --> 00:38:46,990
then collaborating
with international partners

717
00:38:47,031 --> 00:38:49,414
to achieve this outcome was
something unprecedented.

718
00:38:50,688 --> 00:38:52,476
It actually disrupted
a significant

719
00:38:52,517 --> 00:38:54,455
organised crime threat
to the country.

720
00:38:54,496 --> 00:38:56,712
And that's the thing
I was most proud of.

721
00:39:00,402 --> 00:39:03,083
Altaf Khanani pleaded guilty.

722
00:39:03,683 --> 00:39:06,984
In return for assisting
authorities in March last

723
00:39:08,233 --> 00:39:11,035
year he received only
five-and-a-half years in jail.

724
00:39:12,633 --> 00:39:15,934
With US sanctions in place
against his family and

725
00:39:15,974 --> 00:39:18,944
associates the Khanani
network has been dismantled.

726
00:39:20,176 --> 00:39:23,274
Others have emerged
to take its place.

727
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,227
There are other networks.

728
00:39:26,267 --> 00:39:30,267
For example, out of Vietnam, out
of Dubai, out of Hong Kong.

729
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,520
The business that is lost if
the Khanani network has taken

730
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,800
down, simply gets picked up by

731
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,194
another money
laundering network.

732
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:41,640
I'm quite confident
that Khanani was

733
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,480
the top of a fairly large tree.

734
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,480
Unfortunately, it's a
forest, there's lot

735
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,840
of trees, and lots of
people at the top.

736
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,000
So, the job of this
agency and working with

737
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other law enforcement
partners is to really

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identify those trees and
identify the people

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at the top of them,
and take them out.

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I think the biggest
message that everyone

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can take from this
and all the drug

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traffickers and money
launderers in the

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world is that
nobody's untouchable.

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(music)