Organization international criminal police announced that a operation to combat cybercrime jointly conducted by Interpol and the police services of sixteen African countries including those of Senegal a resulted in the arrest of 651 suspects and the recovery of 4.3 billion Of dollars.

The operation called “Red Card 2.0”, conducted between December 8, 2025 and January 30, 2026, targeted infrastructure and actors responsible for high-yield investment scams, fraud to mobile money transfers and fraudulent mobile loan applications.

Interpol reported on its official website that “the security forces of 16 African countries carried out 651 arrests and recovered more than 4.3 million US dollars during a international operation to combat cybercrime targeting online scams”. He assures that over the course of eight weeks In operation, the investigations uncovered scams that caused over 45 million US dollars in financial losses and permits to identify 1,247 victims.

These victims are mainly from the African continent, but also from other regions of the world, while 2,341 devices were seized and 1,442 IP addresses were seized, malicious domains and servers, and other related infrastructure have been neutralized.