UK’s NCA works with Bulgarian partners to make major seizure of small boats
National Crime Agency officers have worked with Bulgarian law enforcement partners to seize a consignment of 25 boats that was
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Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.
Joint Romania-Bulgaria action: two Turkish drivers arrested for migrant smuggling
The Giurgiu border police, in collaboration with the Bulgarian ones, stopped a Turkish-registered bus on DN 5 for inspection, which
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Joint operations of the Border Guard and the Police in Poland
Police officers from the Bieruń Police Headquarters, the Pszczyna Police Headquarters, the Bielsko-Biała Police Headquarters, and the Tychy Police Headquarters
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Operation targeting human trafficking and money laundering: 13 arrests in Romania and Netherlands
An organised crime group that took vulnerable women from Romania to the Netherlands for sexual exploitation has been halted thanks
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Fourteen foreign citizens without the right to travel to the Schengen area, detected by border guards at the western border
And the Romanian border police officers from the Borș Border Police Sector, together with workers from the Hungarian authorities, detected,
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People smuggling gang jailed for cramming migrants into refrigerated lorries
Seven members of a people smuggling ring have been jailed today (17 July) for loading migrants into lorry trailers and
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Six foreign citizens without the right to travel in the Schengen area, detected by border police
Border police officers from the Nădlac Border Police Sector carried out random and unsystematic checks on the routes near the border. On
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Polish-Lithuanian Border Guard officers, in cooperation with Territorial Defense Force soldiers, detained 12 people
At the Lithuanian border in Markiškės, Border Guard officers and Territorial Defense Force soldiers detained a courier. He was a
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Efficient Romanian-Moldovan cooperation: Six people stopped at Prut before illegally entering Romania
Following information promptly transmitted by the border authorities of the Republic of Moldova, border police officers from the Rădăuți Prut
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Migrants attempted to cross the Polish border in groups of several dozen
Foreigners who attempted to illegally cross the Polish-Belarusian border on July 15 came from countries including Yemen, Iran, Ethiopia, and
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Sentences totalling almost 80 years handed out as two migrant cannabis farm gangs are jailed following major NCA investigations
Eight people have been handed jail sentences totalling almost 80 years following two separate National Crime Agency investigations into their
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158 human traffickers arrested and 1 194 victims safeguarded in global operation
A major operation against human trafficking has resulted in the safeguarding of 1 194 potential victims and the arrest of
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Two-way migrant smuggling network busted in France and Spain
Europol supported the French National Police (Police Nationale/OLTIM Perpignan) and the Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional/UCRIF Central) in dismantling an
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INTERPOL releases new information on globalization of scam centres
Human trafficking-fueled scam centres have expanded their global footprint, according to a new crime trend update released by INTERPOL. As
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Nine foreign citizens without the right to travel in the Schengen area, detected by border police
Border police officers from the Nădlac Border Police Sector of Romania carried out random and unsystematic checks on the communication routes near
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People smuggling gang crammed migrants into refrigerated lorries
A London-based people smuggling ring that loaded migrants into lorry trailers and attempted dangerous journeys from the UK to France
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8 arrests for migrant smuggling and drug trafficking across the Mediterranean
The gang used minors as skippers in its criminal operations to minimise the risk of detection Europol has supported Spanish
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Bulgarian authorities arrest 18 for smuggling migrants across its southern border
A criminal network smuggling mainly Syrian migrants from Türkiye to Western Europe has been taken down following a coordinated action
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