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Europol has carried out a series of searches in several countries, resulting in nearly a dozen arrests and the dismantling of the second largest counterfeit money operation in Europe, the European police agency announced on Monday. Between 9 and 11 December, Europol agents carried out several operations aimed at putting an end to the sale of counterfeit banknotes on the darknet. In Germany, 27 searches were made, during which a clandestine print shop was discovered. Nine other raids were carried out in Austria, France, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg and Spain, Europol said. Eleven people were arrested, including the gang’s leader, the...
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Nine people have been arrested in France, Germany and Austria for the sale of stolen gold worth around 1 million euros a year, according to Europol. French gendarmes in coordination with German and Austrian police and Europol carried out a large-scale operation targeting organised robbery, concealment and money laundering, resulting in the arrest of nine people since last week. Six suspects, three men and three women, were detained in France, while two other arrests were made in Germany and one in Austria. Investigations began in January 2018 in the Nantes region, where a 56-year-old jeweller had been identified as receiving...
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A Europe-wide organised crime network was broken up last week following a joint operation between several national police forces, leading to the arrest of 22 suspects, Europol has announced. The European crime agency estimates that the "highly professional and dangerous" international criminal group earned about €680 million from its activities between 2017 and 2019. The group used "specialized encrypted communication devices" and counter-surveillance techniques to try to stay a step ahead of police, Europol said. "The operation, code-named ‘Icebreaker’, is the biggest of its kind to date in Europe against such an organised crime group, comprising nationals of Lithuania and...
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Organised crime is the biggest threat to security in Europe, far exceeding that of terrorism and migration, according to security officials who spoke at a conference hosted by Europol in the Hague on Tuesday. "Organized crime currently represents the highest risk for the internal security of the European Union,"Jari Liukku, head of the European Centre for Organised Crime at Europol told a conference organized by the European agency for cooperation between criminal police and the Italian anti-mafia agency. According to speakers at the conference, organised crime has been "in the shadows" in recent years due to a wave of terrorist...
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Europol, working in conjunction with Romanian, Slovenian and Austrian authorities has broken up a human trafficking gang that charged migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Syria up to 7, 000 euros each to be smuggled into the European Union. The people smuggling gang, coordinated by a Pakistani national with the aid of Romanian and other nationals, had been operating since July 2016 and was illegally transporting migrants in cars, vans and lorries to the EU via the Balkan route. Austrian and Romanian law enforcement authorities arrested 10 suspects from the criminal group in simultaneous operations on 9 April. Nineteen premises...
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Law enforcement officials in Croatia and Slovenia have broken up an international organised crime network involved in illegal gambling and sports corruption. The syndicate - which is alleged to have attempted to rig football matches in countries including the Czech Republic, Macedonia and Serbia - was brought down by a Europol-backed that involved multiple raids across Slovenia and Croatia. In all, 13 house properties and 15 vehicles were searched as part of the probe, resulting in the arrest of 11 suspects, and the seizure of 35 computers and IT devices, 32 mobile phones, €19 650 in cash, counterfeit euro currency...
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Four Bulgarian citizens have been arrested for allegedly running an ATM skimming operation in Europe, the international law enforcement agency, Europol, announced on Thursday. The concerted action involved the Italian Carabinieri, the Czech police and the Bulgarian General Directorate of Combating Organised Crime, supported by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre. During the arrests over 1,000 counterfeit credit cards were seized alongside evidence of fraudulent international transactions worth more than 50,000 euros. According to a Europol statement, dozens of ATM machines in central areas of European cities were targeted by the gangs who installed micro cameras or magnetic strips onto the terminals...
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Europol has called for tough new legalisation to tackle cyber crime at the end of a 12-month period that saw the scale, rate and spread of hacker activity reach unprecedented levels. The EU law enforcement agency’s latest Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), which was published today, reveals that ransomware attacks such as May’s global WannaCry outbreak have eclipsed most other forms of cyber threat. In its assessment, Europol also highlights how the dark web remains an enabler of a range of serious crimes, including the supply of new psychoactive substances such as synthetic opioid fentanyl, the sale of weapons...
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A Spanish-led police operation has broken up a network trading in horsemeat unfit for human consumption. The Europol-backed crackdown - which was carried out in cooperation with law enforcement agencies in Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland and the UK - resulted in the arrest of 65 people in Spain. They were charged with a number of offences relating to the fraudulent sale of horsemeat, including forgery, animal abuse, perverting the course of justice and membership of an organised criminal group. During raids on properties that led to the arrests, police seized a number of high-value items, including luxury cars,...
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Europol has teamed up with the Institute of International Finance (IIF) to crackdown on financial crime, cyber hackers, money laundering and terrorist financing. Backed by the Financial Action Task Force and a number of national regulators from EU member states, the effort is intended to identify ways in which law enforcement agencies can cooperate more effectively in the fight against financial crime. At a meeting at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague on Thursday, the two organisations launched a new forum for EU police forces and the banking sector designed to boost information and intelligence sharing between the two sectors. The...
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