Migrant smuggling
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09 November 2023|NEWS
On 8 and 9 November, Eurojust hosted its seventh Annual Meeting on Migrant Smuggling. This event, organised by the Eurojust Anti-Trafficking Team, is a forum dedicated to judicial practitioners active in the fight against migrant smuggling. It also serves as the annual meeting of the Focus Group of...
08 November 2023|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
This paper summarises the discussions of the focus group of specialised prosecutors against trafficking in human beings (‘THB Focus Group of Prosecutors’) at their second meeting held at Eurojust premises on 28 and 29 June 2023. This meeting: gathered specialised prosecutors and investigative judges...
18 October 2023|PRESS RELEASE
The Belgian Court of Bruges sentenced 20 suspects today to prison terms ranging from 30 months to 11 years for their involvement in migrant smuggling. They were also ordered to pay fines of up to EUR 80 000. The suspects were arrested in July 2022 in an unprecedented international operation...
25 September 2023|NEWS
Tackling migrant smuggling is at the heart of the EuroMed Justice (EMJ) multiannual 2022-25 strategy. With the active support of the Cypriot Ministry of Justice, several key actors had the opportunity to continue the exchanges started in Athens in 2022. Eurojust, the Secretariat of the European...
07 June 2023|PRESS RELEASE
Eurojust and Europol have assisted judicial and law enforcement authorities in Germany, Romania and Serbia in dismantling an organised crime group that allegedly smuggled hundreds of migrants to Germany. During a joint action day, two suspects were taken into custody in Germany. Another nine...
14 December 2022|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
The Eurojust annual meeting on Migrant Smuggling was organised by Eurojust on 19 and 20 October 2022 and represented the largest meeting ever of prosecutors who specialise in tackling migrant smuggling. More than 80 practitioners - prosecutors and investigative judges - from 34 countries and...
19 October 2022|PRESS RELEASE
Eurojust is hosting the largest meeting ever of prosecutors who specialise in tackling migrant smuggling on 19-20 October. The Eurojust Annual Meeting on Migrant Smuggling will focus on how to investigate the financial streams behind criminal networks and the effects of the war in Ukraine. In...
16 September 2022|PRESS RELEASE
Supported by Eurojust and Europol, judicial and law enforcement authorities in Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and the United States dismantled a criminal network involved in migrant smuggling, document fraud and money laundering.
08 July 2022|PRESS RELEASE
Eurojust has assisted authorities in the Czech Republic, Belgium, Poland, Germany and Hungary in dismantling an organised crime group (OCG) that was involved in migrant smuggling. During an action, nine suspects were arrested and nine locations were searched. Eurojust provided financial support and...
06 July 2022|PRESS RELEASE
Supported by Eurojust and Europol, judicial and law enforcement authorities in France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have dismantled a criminal network suspected of using small boats to smuggle up to 10 000 migrants across the English Channel over the last 12 to 18 months...
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