The Australian Federal Police seized $134 million worth of criminal assets in the last financial year, more than double that of the previous 12 months and the most valuable haul in almost a decade.
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Federal police continued to target the bank accounts and possessions of some of Australia's top criminals as part of national efforts to disrupt serious and organised crime.
They seized control of 54 bank accounts, $56 million in cash, 45 motor vehicles, 54 buildings and one motor yacht from the hands of crooks under proceeds of crime legislation in 2013-14, the agency's annual report revealed.
Luxury imported cars, including an Aston Martin and Lamborghini, diamond jewellery and gold bullion were among the spoils.
The total value of the past year's bounty dwarfed the $62.5 million of items restrained the year before.
It was also more than $90 million above the AFP's target, based on the average value of assets taken in the previous five years, of $43.2 million.
That made it the highest-value raft of seizures since the 2004-05 financial year, when federal police confiscated criminal assets worth $158.3 million.
An AFP spokeswoman said the significant increase in restrained assets was due to "the successful settlement of several substantial investigations" in the past year.
The spokeswoman said the most valuable was the seizure of nearly $50 million from the failed business empire of former California tomato baron Scott Salyer
SK Foods Australia went into liquidation in 2009. Its parent company was run by Salyer, who was convicted of racketeering in the United States in relation to the business.
The Victorian Supreme Court ordered the funds be restrained and forfeited when a legal battle between the companies' US-based trustee in bankruptcy and the ANZ bank settled in November 2013.
The AFP also seized $7 million tied up in bank accounts and property belonging to two men arrested in May over one of the biggest insider trading cases in Australia's history.
Lukas Kamay, 26, a former NAB banker from Melbourne, and ex-Australian Bureau of Statistics employee Christopher Hill, 24, pleaded guilty last month to insider trading after they used unreleased economic data to trade on foreign currency markets.
In its annual report, tabled in federal Parliament last week, the AFP hailed the overall boost in criminal assets seized as one of the most significant achievements of the past year.
Federal police have seen an increase in restraints of the proceeds of crime since they launched the Criminal Assets Investigation Taskforce at the start of 2011 as part of its beefed up crime program.
The total value of assets seized hovered around $20 million each year between 2008 and 2011.
The AFP also confiscated 7739 kilograms of illicit drugs and ingredients in the last financial year, which was 1275 kilograms more than the 12 months prior.
The bigger haul was despite the fact police carried out 1940 fewer drug seizures last financial year than in 2012-13.
Police seized 4094 kilograms of amphetamines in 2013-14, which was 818 kilograms more than the year before.
About 1423 kilograms of precursor chemicals were uncovered, an increase on the previous year's total of 803 kilograms.
They uncovered 150 kilograms of heroin, down from 508 kilograms in 2012-13.
Of almost eight tonnes of illicit drugs seized, 439 kilograms were discovered by police who monitor Australia's major airports.
