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Milano. Traffico illecito di rifiuti: Operazione ‘’Black Steel’’ eseguite 18 misure cautelari

Comando Provinciale di Milano – Milano, 15/02/2023 10:30 Con la presente nota, si dà comunicazione dell’esecuzione di diversi provvedimenti cautelari personali e reali, adottati all’esito di complesse e articolate indagini, anche di... Read more »

Trento: smantellata organizzazione criminale transnazionale dedita alla frode nel settore dei carburanti

Eseguite 6 misure cautelari personali e disposto il sequestro di beni per oltre  3,2 mln di € a carico di 41 indagati Nella mattinata odierna, Finanzieri del Comando Provinciale... Read more »

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Genova. Operazione ‘Trickster’. Sgominata banda dedita alle truffe ad anziani

Comando Provinciale di Genova – Genova, 01/02/2023 11:17 I Carabinieri del Nucleo Investigativo di Genova, in collaborazione con EUROPOL e le Forze di Polizia tedesche e polacche, a seguito di complessa indagine,... Read more »

Counterfeit tobacco products worth EUR 17 million seized in France

Information shared with Europol led to the targeting of the first factory for counterfeit cigarettes ever found in France On 12 January, more than 60 officers from the French... Read more »

Call centres selling fake crypto taken down in Bulgaria, Serbia and Cyprus

The criminal organisations lured German victims to invest over two million euro in bogus crypto investment websites Law enforcement and judicial authorities from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany and Serbia, supported... Read more »

14 Countries tackle violent extremism online in a coordinated referral action day

More than 800 items flagged to 34 platforms affected by the proliferation of violent extremist content online On 15 December 2022, the European Union Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU)... Read more »

61 arrested so far for smuggling migrants to the EU via Belarus and Russia

The criminal network worth an estimated EUR 16 million in money flows focused its activities along the EU-Belarus border Coordinated activities of national authorities from Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania... Read more »

Heat is rising as European super cartel is taken down in six countries

Between 8-19 November, coordinated raids were carried out across Europe and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), targeting both the command-and-control centre and the logistical drugs trafficking infrastructure in Europe.... Read more »

Action against criminal website that offered ‘spoofing’ services to fraudsters: 142 arrests

Judicial and law enforcement authorities in Europe, Australia, the United States, Ukraine, and Canada have taken down a website that allowed fraudsters to impersonate trusted corporations or contacts to... Read more »

Spanish authorities clamp down on lavish lifestyle of criminal group

27 suspects arrested and massive amounts of drugs, cash as well as luxury vehicles and properties seized in two-part operation Spanish authorities have arrested 10 persons suspected of being... Read more »

Allarme Europol, bancomat nel mirino di «bande criminali senza scrupoli»

In Europa gli attacchi esplosivi contro i distributori sono aumentati drasticamente La lista di questo nuovo metodo di rapina si allunga ogni settimana e “Sempre più spesso vengono utilizzati... Read more »

Sequestrati in tutta Europa 16,7 mln di falsi, di cui 1,5 mln bloccati in Italia dalla GdF

Tra Dicembre 2020 e Settembre 2022, con il supporto di Europol, è stata condotta una delle più grandi operazioni a livello europeo contro le contraffazioni, alla quale ha partecipato... Read more »

32 Arrests in series of actions against the Italian mafia in Spain

Last week, 32 suspects tied to the Italian ‘Ndrangheta were arrested in Spain for their involvement in large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering. This operation was enabled by the... Read more »

More than 130 arrests during EU-wide action against child trafficking

In a joint action supported by Europol, officers of the participating European law enforcement entities and labour inspectorate authorities arrested over 130 criminals and successfully identified around 60 new... Read more »

Three arrests after police action against religious extremist propaganda in Germany

The three individuals are suspected members of the so-called ‘Caliphate State’, a banned radical Islamist organisation On 28 June 2022, the German Regional Police (Landeskriminalamt) struck against the so-called... Read more »

Phishing gang behind several million euros worth of losses busted in Belgium and the Netherlands

The suspects sent emails and text messages with phishing links to bogus banking websites A cross-border operation, supported by Europol and involving the Belgian Police (Federale Politie) and the... Read more »

Targeted: migrant smuggling kingpins with links to more than 180 investigations

An Operational Task Force (OTF), led by the German Federal Police and coordinated by Europol targeted some of the most dangerous migrant smugglers across the EU. The dedicated OTF... Read more »

Cinque arresti in Ungheria per riciclaggio di denaro in tre continenti

La polizia metropolitana di Budapest (Budapesti Rendőr-főkapitányság), supportata da Europol, ha smantellato un’organizzazione criminale coinvolta nel riciclaggio di denaro e nella perpetrazione di frodi utilizzando documenti amministrativi. La giornata... Read more »

Operazione Transilvania: disarticolata associazione per delinquere con base operativa in Italia e che coinvolge diversi paesi europei. 16 persone colpite da misura cautelare e 59 gli indagati

A partire dalle prime ore del mattino di ieri Giovedì 19 Maggio, i Carabinieri del Comando Provinciale di Reggio Calabria, unitamente al personale delle forze di polizia di Romania... Read more »

Three German fugitives arrested in Spain for providing shadow banking system to criminals

With the support of Europol’s Financial and Economic Crime Centre (EFECC), the Spanish Civil Guarda (Guardia Civil), together with the German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt) and the Police... Read more »