The operation, jointly conceived by Australia and the FBI, saw devices with the ANOM app secretly distributed among criminals, allowing police to monitor their chats about drug smuggling, money laundering and even murder plots. Hundreds of people have been arrested around the world after an international police operation which managed to monitor an encrypted messaging platform used by criminal gangs.vIn a joint sting, the FBI, Europol and Australian police gained access to the ANOM platform, where they discovered millions of messages exposing the work of crime syndicates, from murder plots to drug smuggling.