Judicial and law enforcement authorities across Europe and in the United States have dismantled critical online infrastructure in a large-scale operation to disrupt platforms and websites for terrorist communications and propaganda. In a concerted major action this week, servers were taken down in...

A fraudulent pyramid scheme was taken down by authorities from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czechia, Lithuania and Liechtenstein, with the support of Eurojust and Europol. The organised crime group (OCG) used an investment model that focused on the leasing and subleasing of cryptocurrency machines...

The EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security, of which Eurojust is one of the main partners, today published its first report on the use of encrypted communications in criminal investigations. The report stresses the balance that needs to be struck between securing private communications and...

33 searches were conducted and four people were detained in Moldova following a joint action by authorities in France and Moldova after investigations have uncovered a multi-million euro bribery scheme to help fugitives evade international justice. On 5 June a high-level official was arrested in...

The first ever Regional Consultative Forum, organised by Eurojust and the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office in Montenegro, is strengthening cooperation between authorities in the Western Balkans in the fight against organised crime and high-level corruption. The Forum is the first time that...

Eurojust President Mr Ladislav Hamran today discussed the importance of criminal justice cooperation with the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, HE Mr Denis Bećirović. The ongoing involvement of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Western Balkan Criminal Justice Project (WBCJ) was...

A coordinated operation to uncover an intricate cryptocurrency scam led to the arrest of a suspect in France. The investigations in Portugal, France, Germany, Italy and Romania, supported by Eurojust and Europol, revealed that the suspects were using a scam method known as ‘rip deals’ that caused...

A large-scale ring of luxury car thieves has been dismantled with the support of Eurojust and Europol. Using straw men and underprivileged people, the criminals hired or leased luxury vehicles, which they later registered in their own names through corrupt connections in official institutions. The...

In an unprecedented operation against aggressive and dangerous computer malware, authorities in the European Union and beyond have taken actions against droppers including IcedID, Pikabot, Smokeloader, Bumblebee and Trickbot, which infiltrated computers via emails. The measures focused on disrupting...

Spearheading the European Union’s judicial response to the war in Ukraine, and digitalising criminal justice, were at the heart of Eurojust’s work in 2023, and will continue to be so, says the Agency’s Annual Report, published today.