Migrant smuggling
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15 January 2019|PRESS RELEASE
An organised criminal group recruiting dozens of women into sham marriages was dismantled by Belgian authorities and the Portuguese Immigration and Borders Service (SEF), with the active support of Eurojust and Europol. Seventeen suspects were arrested today in Belgium and three suspects were...
24 August 2018|PRESS RELEASE
On 22 August 2018, from a coordination centre at Eurojust, in the context of an investigation of the Public Prosecution Office Munich I, searches and arrests were synchronised in Romania and Poland against an organised crime group (OCG), involved in recruiting and trafficking men and women from...
13 June 2018|PRESS RELEASE
Eurojust and Europol's European Migrant Smuggling Centre assisted the German and Danish national authorities in detecting and dismantling an organised crime group (OCG) that used sham marriages with EU citizens to grant permanent residence permits to illegal migrants from Asia.
04 June 2018|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
31 May 2018|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
The Eurojust meeting on migrant smuggling (hereinafter ‘the meeting’) was organised by Eurojust in The Hague on 30-31 May 2018, with the support of the Bulgarian EU Presidency. The meeting was attended by practitioners from the EU Member States, Serbia and Turkey, as well as representatives from the...
10 April 2018|PRESS RELEASE
01 April 2018|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
The report is based on the analysis of a selection of 30 migrant smuggling cases presenting specific judicial cooperation challenges and features, out of a total of 189 registered at Eurojust, covering the period from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2017. The analysis was complemented by practitioners...
12 December 2017|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
This legal analysis provides an overview of relevant Italian case-law on illegal immigrant smuggling through the sea, highlighting the main obstacles faced by Italian prosecutors in dealing with such cases and solutions emerging therefrom. It further highlights the operational guidelines developed...
06 October 2017|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
The 12th meeting of the Consultative Forum of Prosecutors General and Directors of Public Prosecutions of the Member States of the European Union (the Forum) was jointly convened by the Prosecutor General of Estonia, Lavly Perling, and the Attorney General of Malta, Peter Grech. The meeting was...
15 June 2017|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
The meeting on illegal immigrant smuggling (the meeting), organised and hosted by Eurojust in The Hague, took place on 15 June 2017, under the auspices of the joint Presidencies of Malta and Estonia. The participants included practitioners from the Member States, Norway and the USA, as well as...
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