Almost 50 arrested as police target Western Balkan network linked to killings
Nearly 50 suspects have been arrested in an international operation targeting a drug trafficking network with Western Balkan members, linked
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Organised Crime
Organised crime is understood as ‘any serious crime with a cross-border dimension committed at or along, or which is related to, the external borders’.
OCG brought to justice in complex murder and kidnapping case supported by Eurojust
An organised criminal group has been sentenced to a combined total of more than 100 years imprisonment in the United
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An international drug trafficking organization that operated as a money laundering network for organized crime has been dismantled
The organization, based in Spain and linked to prominent figures in international drug trafficking, smuggled cocaine into Europe from Colombia
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Crackdown on Italian organised criminal network involved in large-scale euro counterfeiting
Europol has supported an international operation targeting a criminal network linked to the Italian mafia-type organisation Camorra. The operation, coordinated
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Inter-institutional investigation succeeds in dismantling a transnational criminal gang, preventing drugs from leaving through Chilean ports
An investigation that lasted more than a year and involved national and international institutions led to the dismantling of a
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Polish-Led Investigation Dismantles Cocaine Smuggling Network, Six Arrested
A joint investigation by Poland’s Nadwiślański Border Guard Unit and the Warsaw Police Headquarters has led to the arrest of
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New UNODC report reveals scale of South-East Asia’s ever more interconnected criminal economy
South-East Asia’s criminal ecosystem has undergone a fundamental restructuring, according to a new report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime
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Eurojust and Iraq sign Working Arrangement to combat terrorism and serious organised crime
Eurojust President, Michael Schmid and Judge Ali Hussein Chafat, representative of the Supreme Judicial Council of the Republic of Iraq
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Europol and INTERPOL strengthen partnership against global criminal threats
Europol and INTERPOL have renewed their joint commitment to combatting transnational organised crime, agreeing on a new set of Joint
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Encrypted chats expose Kosovar organised crime network behind EUR 80 million criminal empire
Messages exchanged on the encrypted communication platform SKY ECC have exposed a Kosovar-based organised crime network in large-scale drug trafficking,
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Six men and 400 kg of marijuana were detained during a special operation at the Bulgarian border checkpoint
An organised criminal group for international drug trafficking through the country was neutralised in a specialised police operation of the
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The Bulgarian Anti-Corruption Bureau (GDBOP) arrests a group for environmental crimes and money laundering
The four also carried out transactions outside the country, avoiding paying customs duties. The activities of an organized criminal group,
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Europe-wide race to locate fugitives unfolds at Europol
Nearly 100 investigators and open-source intelligence (OSINT) specialists from 31 countries gathered at Europol headquarters in The Hague on 3
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Crime family who used corrupt airline check-in attendant to help smuggle vast amounts of drugs cash to the UAE are convicted
A criminal family and their associates smuggled almost £30 million of cash out of the UK to the United Arab
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One of the UK’s most wanted fugitives, included in the international “Most Wanted” campaign, has been arrested in Alicante
The Spanish Civil Guard has arrested in Alicante one of the fugitives included in the international search campaign launched by
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Leading Balkan Cartel member arrested in Montenegro
On 15 April 2026, Europol supported law enforcement authorities in Montenegro in conducting a large-scale operation targeting a significant cell
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The Spanish Civil Guard dismantles the “Lyons Clan”, the most violent Scottish criminal organization of recent decades
The Civil Guard, as part of Operation ‘Armorum’, has dismantled the structure based in Spain of the well-known “Lyons Clan”,
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From a small Swedish town to a global crime network: international operation strikes top-tier organised crime
The seizure of two mobile phones in a small Swedish town exposed a resilient criminal architecture stretching across Europe, Asia
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