Eurojust coordinates cross-border action against money laundering network
Today, a coordination centre at Eurojust supported an action day against a criminal network involved in international money laundering, criminal acts relating to organised bankruptcy and aggravated...
View ArticleEurojust and Ukraine sign an Agreement on Cooperation
Yesterday, at a ceremony at the European Commission, Ms Michèle Coninsx, President of Eurojust, and the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Mr Yuriy Lutsenko, signed an Agreement on Cooperation in the...
View ArticleJoint Eurojust- Europol press release
Yesterday, a coordination centre at Eurojust supported an international action day against a criminal network involved in international VAT fraud and money laundering defrauding EU citizens of...
View ArticleStrengthening European prosecution of IPR infringement
Today, Eurojust and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further expand the existing fruitful collaboration to support European...
View ArticleOrganised crime group specialised in sexual exploitation dismantled
August, in Ploieşti, Romania, Romanian and UK authorities* conducted 18 house searches of members of an organised crime group specialised in trafficking of women for sexual exploitation. Eight...
View ArticleNew Eurojust Liaison Prosecutor for Norway; Eurojust and Norway hold annual...
On 1 September 2016, Hilde Stoltenberg was appointed Liaison Prosecutor for Norway to Eurojust, in accordance with Article 5 of the Agreement between the Kingdom of Norway and Eurojust of April 2005....
View ArticleEurojust in 2015: coping with a sharp increase in cases
Yesterday, Ms Michèle Coninsx, President of Eurojust, attended a hearing of the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament to discuss the work and ongoing activities of Eurojust in the area of judicial...
View ArticleAction against an organised criminal group involved in thefts of luxury cars
On 11 October, a joint action day run by French and German police authorities, and supported by Eurojust with a coordination centre, succeeded in stopping an international organised criminal group...
View ArticleKlaus Meyer-Cabri elected Vice-President of Eurojust
Eurojust is pleased to announce yesterday’s election of Mr Klaus Meyer-Cabri, the Eurojust National Member for Germany, as Vice-President of Eurojust for a three-year term. The election took place...
View ArticleNew Psychoactive Substances Eurojust and the EMCDDA release first joint...
Eurojust, the European Union’s judicial cooperation unit, and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), have released today their first joint publication entitled New...
View ArticleInternational computer fraud, forgery and money laundering ring dismantled
On 15 November, prosecutors from the Romanian Territorial Office Valcea of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), acting within a joint investigation team (JIT) set...
View ArticleOrganised crime group behind illegal immigration dismantled
Anti-Mafia District Directorate of Salerno, Italy, in close cooperation with the Public Prosecution Office of Karlsruhe, Germany and with the support of Eurojust, carried out an operation concerning an...
View ArticleKick-off meeting for the European Judicial Cybercrime Network
On 24 November, the President of Eurojust, Ms. Michèle Coninsx, welcomed the representatives of the European Judicial Cybercrime Network at Eurojust. In their opening remarks, the President of...
View ArticleDrug trafficking and Hawala money laundering ring dismantled by joint...
The drugs were sold in France, where the profits were collected and then transported to Belgium and the Netherlands. The criminals’ modus operandi involved the use of cash couriers traveling by car,...
View ArticleAvalanche network dismantled in international cyber operation
Yesterday, after more than four years of investigation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden and the Lüneburg Police (Germany), in close cooperation with the United States Attorney’s Office for the...
View ArticleSomali migrant smuggling network in Europe dismantled
On 6 and 7 December 2016, judicial and law enforcement authorities from France and the Netherlands, supported on-the-spot by Europol’s European Migrant Smuggling Centre, took action against an...
View ArticleSuspected criminal network smuggling Iranian migrants into the UK tackled
Forgery equipment, EUR 50 000 in cash and hundreds of documents were also seized.In a linked operation, nine suspects were arrested as UK officers were deployed to addresses in Glasgow, Leeds,...
View ArticleLadislav Hamran re-elected Vice-President of Eurojust
Yesterday, Mr Ladislav Hamran, National Member for the Slovak Republic, was re-elected for a second three-year term as Vice-President. read more
View ArticleEU-wide fuel oil and precious metals VAT fraud and money laundering network...
On 14 December 2016 judicial authorities and law enforcement from Spain dismantled a criminal organization whose modus operandi involved defrauding states on the VAT from oil and precious metals via a...
View ArticleSuccessful action against international money laundering network: France,...
The initial results of a preliminary investigation carried out by the French National Financial Public Prosecutor's Office, commenced in September 2015, has revealed a vast and complex money laundering...
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