Frontex leads international operation against serious crime at Eastern border
Between 27 September-8 October, Frontex led an international operation to crack down on serious transnational crime at EU’s eastern land
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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’.
OSCE-organized training courses further strengthen operational criminal intelligence analysis in South-Eastern Europe
The OSCE’s Strategic Police Matters Unit, in co-operation with six OSCE field operations in South-Eastern Europe and the Shortest Path
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Gabon authorities open first criminal intelligence analytical unit with INTERPOL support
On Friday 1 October, Seraphin Ibouanga, Director of Cabinet of the Interior Minister in Gabon, presided over the inaugural ceremony
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Over 60 charged in crackdown on Balkan cartel behind cocaine pipeline to Europe
An unprecedented international law enforcement operation involving 8 countries has resulted in criminal reports being filed against 61 suspects belonging
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Police coup against the Italian mafia with the arrest of 106 people for laundering more than ten million euros from computer scams
They operated from the south of Tenerife and laundered money for different Italian mafia clans, such as Casamonica, Camorra napolitana,
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106 arrested in a sting against organised crime group involved in online fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking
The Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional), supported by the Italian National Police (Polizia di Stato), Europol and Eurojust, dismantled an
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Italian Mafiosa wanted in Italy for international drug smuggling, arrested by the Spanish Civil Guard
The Spanish Civil Guard, in a new phase of the so-called Operation TRICOLORE, has arrested in Barcelona the Italian citizen
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More than two tonnes of cocaine seized and six arrested after swoop on luxury yacht
More than two tonnes of cocaine worth around £160m has been seized and six men arrested in a dramatic operation
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Expand use of INTERPOL to address global crime threats – G7 Ministers
G7 Interior and Security Ministers have called for expanding the use of INTERPOL to respond to global crime threats and
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A French police crackdown on the Eurasian mob
In April 2019, a meeting took place in Salzburg, Austria between INTERPOL and the French Gendarmerie’s Central Office for Fighting
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Spanish Civil Guard detains one of the most dangerous criminals claimed by Ireland in Malaga
The Spanish Civil Guard has arrested in the province of Malaga the Irish citizen GH, known in the criminal field
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Republic of the Philippines signs MoU with UNOCT for capacity-building to detect the travel of terrorists and serious criminals
The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines signed a Memorandum of
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Dismantled in the Canary Islands a criminal organization belonging to the dangerous mafia of the Skaljari Clan of Montenegro
Agents of the Spanish Civil Guard and National Police have dismantled a criminal organization based in the Canary Islands. The four
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Operation STOP: securing borders from transnational crime
An INTERPOL operation saw thousands of checks carried out against its global databases in order to strengthen efforts against cross-border
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Fake clothes and luxury items worth € 16.5 million seized in Spain
The Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) and the Portuguese National Guard (Guarda Nacional Republicana) and the Authority for Food and
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Spanish Civil Guard detains 26 members of a network dedicated to the trafficking of hashish along the coast of Malaga
3,362 kilos of hashish, 3 boats, 1,600 liters of fuel, 16 vehicles (two high-end that had been stolen), hunting, short
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An organized crime group was broken up
The Vistula Border Guard Unit defeated an organized criminal group that smuggled, manufactured and distributed illegal tobacco products. The illegal
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Spanish National Police dismantles a traveling organization of Albanian-Kosovar origin specialized in the commission of robberies
A total of 21 people arrested for their alleged involvement in different robberies with force committed in the provinces of
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