SIRIUS EU Electronic Evidence Situation Report 2024 Read the report Eurojust, Europol and the European Judicial Network have published the 2024 edition of the SIRIUS European Union (EU) Electronic Evidence Situation Report. First presented at the SIRIUS Annual Conference to an audience of EU law...

Authorities have struck a blow at illegal streaming networks, by shutting down one of the world’s largest illegal service. Eurojust and Europol supported the operation, which involved cooperation between Italian, Croatian, Dutch, Romanian, Swedish, Swiss and UK authorities. In a large-scale...

Eurojust and Europol have assisted the German authorities with the coordinated takedown of a smuggling network, which was illegally transporting Syrian migrants via the Balkan route. In total, 29 suspects involved in the smuggling of at least 750 migrants to Germany and the United Kingdom were...

Eurojust, Europol and authorities from 10 countries stopped a criminal group operating an intricate cigarette trafficking scheme. The authorities discovered a Polish group active in cigarette trafficking and investigations connected a counterfeit cigarette factory in France to another international...

Eurojust has supported Italian authorities with the return of over 2 500 precious ancient coins, vases and small sculptures that had been illegally excavated and later sold in Switzerland. Last Friday afternoon, the treasures from the ancient city of Cales, dating from the third century BC and the...

Albanian authorities arrested ten alleged members of a drug trafficking network over the weekend in an operation supported by Eurojust. A sophisticated cocaine-processing laboratory was also seized in Albania. The members of the Albanian organised crime group (OCG) were involved in the transport of...

Eight suspects have been arrested during a Eurojust supported operation against a human trafficking ring in Hungary and Romania. The criminals recruited people from Romania and forced them to work in poor conditions and without freedom of movement in a paper factory in Hungary.

During an international action, a major supplier of small boats to human smugglers was arrested in the Netherlands. Dutch, Belgian and UK authorities worked together with Eurojust and Europol to arrest the individual who is suspected of supplying engines and boats to smugglers.

Mr Michael Schmid, National Member for Austria at Eurojust, has today been elected as the new President of the Agency. He will take up office on 15 November for a four-year term, replacing the current President, Mr Ladislav Hamran, who is completing his second and final term. Mr Schmid (40) has...

Thirty-eight people have been indicted following an unprecedented operation supported by Eurojust against a criminal network for forging over 2 000 works of contemporary art. A year-and-a-half-long investigation by Italian authorities, in cooperation with Belgian, French and Spanish counterparts...