Ghana, not FBI, led Operation Blackout - CSA to FBI on cybercrime bust

The Authority said the operation was led and coordinated by the CSA, with support from Ghana’s National Security Council, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service and several international partners.

The Cyber Security Authority (CSA) has clarified that Ghanaian authorities planned, coordinated and executed Operation Blackout, also known as Operation Cyber Hunt, following an account of the operation by FBI Director Kash Patel.“Ghanaian authorities planned, coordinated and executed the operation within Ghana's legal and institutional frameworks, and it thus cannot be said to be conceived as part of an FBI-led global programme, neither was it conducted under a foreign operational command.”