Police in the state of Brescia in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy have made 35 arrests targeting a criminal organisation that imported large quantities of cocaine and hashish into... read more →
Twenty-five suspected members of an Albanian drug trafficking gang operating from Belgium have been arrested in a coordinated police action in five countries, according to a Europol statement. Fourteen searches... read more →
A total of 2,686 people were arrested for drug trafficking in the European Union last year by national police forces working in cooperation with the EU judicial agency, according to... read more →
Greek police seized nearly 1.2 tons of cocaine and arrested eight foreign nationals suspected of belonging to a criminal network that transported drugs from the Caribbean to Europe, Greek police... read more →
Italian investigators have arrested 94 people in a massive swoop targeting Sicilian mafia clans specialising in EU funds fraud. More than 600 agents from the Carabinieri and the financial crime... read more →
One of the UK’s most wanted criminals was arrested in the Dutch city of The Hague on Christmas day, according to the UK’s National Crime Agency. Daniel Burdett, 28, who... read more →
Spanish police discovered a submarine containing ‘tons’ of cocaine off the northwestern coast of Spain on Sunday, in the first such interception of its kind to be made in the... read more →
The Italian police have seized almost 1.2 tonnes of cocaine in Reggio Calabria, in the south of the country last week, making it the sixth largest seizure in Italian history.... read more →
The former head of Venezuelan military intelligence has escaped Spanish authorities days after Madrid approved his extradition to the United States where he is wanted on drug trafficking charges. Hugo... read more →
The “cocaine king” accused of being behind one of the largest ever drugs busts to take place on European soil has been identified as the Balkan organised crime boss Michael... read more →
