Drug trafficking networks operating in Europe and worldwide exploit the porousness of international borders and use increasingly sophisticated means to commit their crimes. Through its coordination of national efforts to investigate and prosecute these and other transnational crimes, Eurojust...

An organised crime group (OCG) in Romania and Finland allegedly ran a network for the sexual exploitation of around ten women. The suspects recruited their young female victims from poorer rural areas of Romania for sexual exploitation in Finland, often under false pretences. November 2020 – Thanks...

The aim of this booklet is to present an overview of the legal frameworks in the different EU Member States and in countries with which Eurojust has a cooperation agreement. The focus is on the use and legal nature in judicial proceedings of statements obtained from debriefed migrants at EU external...

Trafficking in human beings (THB) is a serious and fast-growing crime area that affects millions of innocent people around the world and involves the severe violation of fundamental human rights. Human traffickers control and exploit vulnerable victims and make use of threats, force, fraud...

This report of the JHA agencies’ network aims to make Member States more aware of the agencies’ potential in helping the early identification and protection of victims and to encourage Member States to work closer with the agencies in this area. The report responds to one of the key actions of the...

This leaflet accompanies the Eurojust Guidelines on How to Prosecute Investment Fraud. These guidelines detail the legal and operational issues that prosecutors may come across when investigating and prosecuting investment fraud cases, and outline the support which can be provided by both Eurojust...

In these guidelines, Eurojust provides an overview of the legal and operational issues that prosecutors may come across and explains how Eurojust and the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) can help to bring investment fraud prosecutions to a successful end. The...

Access to data-in-clear of encrypted communications and stored data presents several difficult and controversial issues and continues to create tensions between key stakeholders, including law enforcement and the judiciary and civil society organisations, leaving policy makers with the mammoth task...

The Eurojust Regulation, applicable from 12 December 2019, reinforces Eurojust's successful core concept of supporting the national authorities in their investigations and prosecutions. The National Members, serving the competent national authorities in criminal judicial cooperation matters, provide...

In early 2019, an organised crime group (OCG) based in Romania began targeting unsuspecting bank customers in Lithuania and Estonia. Through so-called phishing messages that included links to counterfeit bank websites, victims were lured into providing their access credentials online.