A French-Israeli criminal gang involved in large-scale CEO fraud was busted last month, Europol reported. The group targeted companies located in France and made off with tens of millions.
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Law enforcement in Italy and Albania with support from Europol dismantled a network of drug traffickers, Europol reported on Thursday. During a joint action day which saw the involvement of some 350 officers in the field, 30 suspects were arrested an
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Law enforcement and judicial authorities from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany and Serbia teamed up against organized crime groups involved in online investment fraud, Europol reported Thursday. This criminal network, comprising a number of different actors
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The city of Amsterdam in The Netherlands is known for masters like Rembrandt and Van Gogh, but it also has a darker side - with its infamous Red Light District and restless underworld. That dark side showed itself on January 30, 2013, when a plastic
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Europol and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a joint analysis report on December 14 shedding light on the involvement of Mexican criminal actors in the European drug market. The report shows that Mexican cartels and Euro
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Spanish authorities together with Europol and Eurojust took down a criminal gang laundering dirty money linked to the Magnitsky case, a €219 million corruption case in Russia, Europol reported last week.
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Authorities brought down a “super cartel” which controlled around one third of the cocaine trade in Europe, Europol reported today. A total of 49 suspects have been arrested during the course of this investigation and in coordinated raids across Euro
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Spanish authorities arrested 10 individuals suspected of being involved in drug trafficking and money laundering, Europol reported on Tuesday. Spain’s Guardia Civil carried out house searches in a number of cities, which led to the disruption of a cr
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Iraqi national Barzan Kamal Majeed, nicknamed “Scorpion” after his WhatsApp avatar, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in October for people smuggling offences at a court in Bruges, Belgium. He himself wasn’t present as he was still on the run.
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Members of a British organized crime group who bought scores of blank firing handguns to convert into live weapons have been jailed on Tuesday for a total of almost 14 years. National Crime Agency (NCA) investigators established that 31-year-old Perh
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The Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional) and Tax Agency (Agencia Tributaria) have dismantled an organized crime group believed to be running Europe’s biggest “narco-bank,” Europol reported today.
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Organized crime is a global beast that has no respect for boundaries or borders. With many top gangsters fleeing Europe and seeking safe haven in Arab cities like Dubai, it is important that law enforcement agencies in both regions work closely toget
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A massive international organized crime ring has been broken up in a joint operation between the Spanish Civil Guard and the German Criminal Bureau of Hamburg, Europol reported Monday. The crime group provided financial services to various criminal o
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The ringleader of a money laundering group which smuggled tens of millions of British pounds of criminal cash out of the United Kingdom has been jailed for 9 years on Thursday. 47-year-old Abdullah Mohammed Ali Bin Beyat Alfalasi arranged travel for
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A cross-border operation involving law enforcement authorities from Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia and Spain, and supported by Europol, on Wednesday, led to the dismantling of a criminal organization trafficki
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Mohamed Nyabi is an alleged drug boss and was placed on the Netherlands’ most wanted fugitives list on May 12, 2022. He is suspected of being involved in trafficking large quantities of narcotics and a violent kidnapping in Germany.
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Football, known in the United States as soccer, is the world’s biggest and most lucrative sport. With an audience of billions the sky is the limit. Though many assumed its prime position would protect it from bad influences, such as shady gamblers, t
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In the underworld, the strong and violent rise quickly, but it is the smart who reach the ultimate pinnacle. Among them is Belgium drug lord Flor Bressers. He is young, educated, extremely ruthless and one of Europe’s biggest narco crime bosses.
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A large-scale international Albanian drug organization was shut down today by Europol and law enforcement. Over 600 police agents searched over 80 places and arrested 45 individuals in Belgium, Spain, Croatia, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
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Ending 2021 with a bang! Police in Italy discovered a shipment of three tons of pure cocaine hidden in a load of bananas, peanuts, and pepper coming from South America. The discovery was done in the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro, which is alleged to
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