The Australian Priority Organisation Target (APOT) is a classification used by the
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) is a law enforcement agency established by the Australian federal government on 1 July 2016, following the merger of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) and CrimTrac. It has specialist i ...
to group threats considered most significant to Australia's organised crime environment. Members of the classification include money launderers and drug traffickers. As such, the list is very limited, with just eight targets added to the list in 2017-18. In February 2020 it was revealed that the
vice-president
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of
Crown Resorts
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had personally authorized a transaction of AUD$500,000 to an APOT and withheld details of the transaction from authorities.
References
Organised crime in Australia
Law enforcement in Australia
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