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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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’.
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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Caribbean Customs operation seizes rising number of illegal firearms, disrupting organized criminal networks
Operation CALYPSO 2 was led by the WCO for the second consecutive year in response to the growing threat posed
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Issue Alert – Your latest issue of Border Security Report has arrived
Download your copy of Border Security Report at www.border-security-report.com/BSR Please find here your downloadable copy of the January/February 2026 issue
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Three criminal organizations linked to the Balkan Cartel, dedicated to smuggling large shipments of cocaine, have been dismantled
Spanish National Police officers, in a joint operation with the Spanish Civil Guard and the Tax Agency, have carried out
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A key player linked to the Foxtrot criminal network has been arrested in Iraq
The arrested 21-year-old has been wanted internationally for a long time and is listed on Europol’s Most Wanted. He is
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34 arrests in Spain during action against the ‘Black Axe’ criminal organisation
The Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional), in close cooperation with the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt) and with
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Eurojust supports seizure of mafia assets worth EUR 40 million
Italian and Romanian authorities have seized assets worth more than EUR 40 million from an individual suspected of being affiliated with mafia
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Coordinated strike hits violent criminal network behind large-scale illegal gambling and money laundering in Sweden
A coordinated law enforcement operation carried out in Sweden and Spain between 28 and 29 November targeted a violent criminal
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