Q and A - Eurojust cooperation with Denmark

07 October 2019|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
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Denmark has been a Member of Eurojust since 2002, when the EU’s Judicial Cooperation Unit was founded. It had a full national Desk with a National Member and a National Desk Assistant and was part of Eurojust’s College, comprised of the National Members of the 28 EU Member States. For the period 1 January 2017 – 31 July 2019, Denmark was involved in an total of 382 crossborder cases out of a total of 7702 registered at Eurojust. During the same period, Denmark participated in a average of approximately 23 coordination meetings per year, reaching the highest number of 38 in 2018, as 2019 is still ongoing. Among the most prominent Eurojust cases with Danish involvement, there is Operation Reclaim on large-scale tax fraud, which includes a joint investigation team (JIT), between Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, Operation Agentur on migrant smuggling and sham marriages, the Danske Bank Case, one of the biggest money laundering cases in modern history, or Operation Hvepsebo, on trafficking in human beings, with 15 people convicted with sentences from 3 to 8 years.

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