3. Key crime areas in Eurojust operational work

3.1. Overview of cases by crime type

In 2025, Eurojust dealt with almost 14 000 cases in over a dozen serious cross-border crimes, ranging from drug trafficking and money laundering to migrant smuggling and intellectual property crime.

The three most common crime types handled by the Agency in 2025 were swindling and fraud, drug trafficking and money laundering. Two thirds of all cases that Eurojust worked on in 2025 involved one of these crime types.

Cases by crime type in 2025 - new and ongoing cases

A single investigation can fall into several crime categories.

Crime type	Ongoing cases	New cases
Swindling and fraud	2 909	1 894
Money laundering	1 587	808
Drug trafficking	1 434	766
Mobile organised crime groups	614	514
Cybercrime	481	280
Migrant smuggling	239	147
Trafficking in human beings	229	120
Corruption	222	82
Crimes against EU financial interests (PIF)	180	114
Terrorism	144	69
Core international crimes	50	26
Environmental crime	44	24
Intellectual property crime	48	19
Euro counterfeiting	19	19

This continues an obvious trend that has been consistently present in Eurojust’s casework since 2020 (and before): the overwhelming majority of cases involve these crime types, often in combination with others. Following this group, organised crime (on average in this period present in 7.8% of the cases open in the year), cybercrime (4.4%), trafficking in human beings (3%) and migrant smuggling (2.9%) are present in significant numbers.

Sheer numbers however do not determine the importance of acting against a particular crime type: terrorism, core international crimes or environmental crimes, albeit only present in low numbers on the chart, have significant impact on the security of Europeans and are therefore just as important to investigate.

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