3.1 Overview of Eurojust-referred cases by crime type in 2022

During 2022, Eurojust dealt with more than 11 500 cases across 13 categories of serious cross-border crime, ranging from trafficking in human beings and drugs to terrorism and cybercrime.

The top three crime types handled by the Agency in 2022 continued to be swindling and fraud, drug trafficking and money laundering. More than half of all cases that Eurojust worked on in 2022 involved one of these crime types. Over 3 500 cases in total focused on swindling and fraud crimes, while just over 2 000 cases dealt with drug trafficking and almost another 2 000 cases with money laundering.

In addition to supporting an increasing number of ongoing cases from previous years across all crime types, there was an increase compared to 2021 in the number of new cases brought to Eurojust in six crime areas: swindling and fraud, drug trafficking, money laundering, mobilised organised crime groups (OCGs), intellectual property crime (IPC) and core international crimes. In particular, the number of new core international crime cases opened by the Agency in 2022 more than tripled compared to 2021.