Migrant smuggling
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22 July 2021|PRESS RELEASE
The Spanish and Serbian authorities have dismantled a large-scale drug trafficking network, through a joint investigation team (JIT) with the active support of Eurojust. Across both countries, a total of 43 members of a Serbian organised crime group (OCG) have been arrested for their involvement in...
01 April 2021|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
The organised crime group (OCG), consisting mainly of Iranian nationals living in France, the Netherlands and the UK, endangered the lives of hundreds of migrants while transporting them from France to the UK, across one of the world's busiest commercial shipping lanes, in overloaded small boats and...
22 March 2021|PAGE
The nearly 220 cases focusing on migrant smuggling investigations coordinated through Eurojust in 2020, often in close cooperation with Europol, aimed to cover criminal activity along all major migrant smuggling routes to the European Union. In addition, Eurojust launched a Focus Group for...
22 March 2021|PAGE
The creation of a new Focus Group of Prosecutors and Investigative Judges Fighting Migrant Smuggling To further strengthen the fight against migrant smuggling, Eurojust launched a Focus Group of Prosecutors and Investigative Judges Fighting Migrant Smuggling in April 2020. It is composed of...
21 December 2020|PRESS RELEASE
In a trial in the United Kingdom, four men have been found guilty of being involved in an illegal migrant-smuggling operation which left 39 people dead. They join four more who pleaded guilty before trial. The victims, Vietnamese men and women aged between 15 and 44, were found dead on 22 October...
12 November 2020|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
12 November 2020|LAST UPDATE:31 January 2024|AVAILABLE IN 24 LANGUAGES
Sometimes people gain unlawful access to the European Union (EU) through a marriage of convenience. Increasingly, such sham marriages are part of sophisticated fraud schemes arranged by Organised Crime Groups (OCGs). The OCGs engage in migrant smuggling and trafficking of human beings on an...
11 November 2020|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
09 November 2020|PRESS RELEASE
A broad common approach, involving administrations such as civil registries and consulates, is instrumental to tackling the fraud and abuse perpetrated by Organised Criminal Groups (OCGs) via sham marriages. In addition, further enhancement of judicial cooperation and the coordination of...
05 November 2020|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
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