3.1 Overview of Eurojust-referred cases by crime type in 2024

In 2024, Eurojust dealt with almost 13 000 cases in 14 categories of serious cross-border crime, ranging from drug trafficking and money laundering to migrant smuggling and intellectual property crime.

The top three crime types handled by the Agency in 2024 continued to be swindling and fraud, drug trafficking and money laundering. Two thirds of all cases that Eurojust worked on in 2024 involved one of these crime types. Over 4 000 cases concerned swindling and fraud, while more than 2 000 cases dealt with drug trafficking or money laundering.

In addition to supporting a large number of ongoing cases from previous years across all crime types, the number of new cases referred to Eurojust increased in half of the crime categories in 2024 compared to 2023. In particular, the number of new core international crime cases in 2024 increased by 40% compared to the previous year, while cybercrime cases rose by one third and intellectual property crime cases by 20%.

Similarly, in 2024, national authorities requested Eurojust’s assistance in a slightly higher number of new cases related to swindling and fraud, migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings compared to 2023.