Dozens arrested around Australia as federal police target secret app allegedly used for criminal communications

AFP alleges hundreds of criminals - including motorcycle gang members and Italian, Middle Eastern and Korean organised crime members - used Ghost

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Dozens of people have been arrested as part of an investigation into an encrypted Ghost" messaging network, the first of its kind to allegedly be administered by an Australian, and a platform trumpeted as un-hackable".

Australian national, Jay Je Yoon Jung, 32, from Narwee in Sydney's south, was arrested and charged on Tuesday for allegedly creating and running the platform known as Ghost.