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Europol and Eurojust dismantle a €100m ML network using offshore accounts, shell companies, and unregulated crypto exchanges, seizing €8m in cash and freezing €27m in cryptocurrencies

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jan 27, 2025

The authorities discovered that the group was running a sophisticated money laundering service for other criminal organisations. The group acted as a financial service to transfer criminal profits internationally. Cryptocurrencies were used to move cash profits...

Eurojust addresses criminal group disrupting public services by stealing power cables has been arrested

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Dec 18, 2024

A criminal group, mainly Bulgarian nationals orchestrated large-scale power cable thefts in three German states generating about 1 million euros in profits. After German authorities traced the group’s activities to Bulgaria a joint operation with Eurojust and...

Eurojust suspects four have been arrested for the illegal export of archaeological treasures

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Dec 16, 2024

The group employed grave robbers and forged documents to facilitate the illegal export of these items which were later sold through a fake auction house in Belgium. Over several years the operation caused significant cultural damage and generated illegal profits. A...

Eurojust and Europol support Albanian and Kosovon Authorities to dismantle an arms and drug trafficking network

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Dec 12, 2024

The criminal gang was responsible for the import, export, supply, transport and sale of weapons and explosive materials from Kosovo to Albania. It is suspected that the gang intended to set up a trafficking route towards the European Union. In addition to arms...

Eurojust leads international coordinated operation to shut down ‘MATRIX’, an encrypted messaging platform linked to drug trafficking, arms smuggling and ML 

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Dec 11, 2024

Over 2.3 million messages in 33 languages were intercepted during a three-month investigation. Coordinated actions on December 3 in four countries resulted in arrests, searches, and the seizure of EUR 645,000 in cash and cryptocurrency, cars, and a villa valued at EUR...
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