A cross-border operation, coordinated by Europol and involving law enforcement authorities from Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and the UK, has led to the dismantling of an organised crime network... Read more »
Active along the Eastern Mediterranean road, the criminal network made several hundred million euros in illegal profits An investigation involving the Albanian Criminal Police (Policia e Shtetit), the Hellenic... Read more »
13 Sìtruspects were arrested and 15 minor victims of the network were brought to safety This week a Franco-Belgian investigation supported by Europol uncovered a large criminal network involved... Read more »
The criminal network provided transport and hiding locations in the two transit countries Law enforcement and judicial authorities from Belgium and France, supported by Europol and Eurojust, dismantled a... Read more »
On 19 November 2019, the Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional) dismantled an organised criminal group specialised in migrant smuggling using speedboats from Algeria and Morocco to Europe. The operation,... Read more »
The gang smuggled the migrants, mainly Albanian nationals and refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Syria, on regular ferries. Seven members of the network have been arrested. Europol has... Read more »
An organised crime group involved in smuggling migrants from Greece to other European Union countries has been dismantled in Athens, Greece. The operation was jointly carried out by Attika... Read more »
Law enforcement authorities of Germany, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia, in strong cooperation with Europol’s European Migrant Smuggling Centre, have dismantled an organised crime group that arranged smuggling of migrants... Read more »
On 8 December, 24 people were arrested as several homes were searched in Greece as part of a joint investigation by Greece and the UK, supported by Europol. The... Read more »
Europol has supported the Sirocco-2 action day to dismantle migrant smuggling criminal networks operating along the Western-Balkan channel. All relevant countries from the South East European region participated in... Read more »
Between January and June 2016, Europol received intelligence on more than 7000 newly-identified migrant smuggling suspects. 95% of them are male, with an average age of 36. Recent data... Read more »