👏👏 EU law enforcement cooperation at its finest!
🚨 Two fugitives arrested in Romania as a result of cooperation between 🇸🇰 & 🇷🇴 Fugitive Active Search Teams.
Both fugitives had been hiding in Ukraine, and 1⃣ was on the #EUMostWanted list ⤵️
http://www.eumostwanted.eu #ENFAST
🇪🇺 As sister #JHAAgencies, Europol & @EU_CEPOL are natural partners.
👮♀️👮♂️ Today, Executive Director Catherine De Bolle joined CEPOL’s Executive Director Montserrat Marin in signing an addendum extending our cooperation on jointly-organised training activities.
She also met Ferenc Vágujhelyi, State Secretary Commissioner for the 🇭🇺 National Tax & Customs Administration.
Europol works closely with Hungarian customs on a variety of issues, including money laundering & cross-border VAT fraud.
📍In Budapest today, Executive Director Catherine De Bolle met 🇭🇺 Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér & 👮♂️ Deputy High Commissioner Sándor Töreki to discuss Europol’s ongoing cooperation with Hungarian authorities to respond to threats stemming from the war in Ukraine.
👮👮 #EMPACT tackles the most important threats posed by organised & serious international crime affecting the EU.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 This week, the National EMPACT Coordinators met to further discuss next steps in addressing threats linked to the war in Ukraine.
⚠️ We need your help to #TraceAnObject.
🌍 Do you know if this clothing item is/has been commercialised in a specific country or region?
🔎 Help us #StopChildAbuse. Submit an anonymous tip here ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse
RT @EC3Europol: The illegal marketplace #RaidForums has been shut down 💻
Its administrator & two accomplices arrested 🚔
Once again, international #lawenforcement cooperation leads to a major success 🤝 and we are just getting started.
💻 The illegal marketplace #RaidForums shut down & infrastructure seized as a result of Op TOURNIQUET.
🌍The international law enforcement effort was coordinated by @EC3Europol, & included authorities from 🇸🇪, 🇷🇴, 🇵🇹, 🇩🇪, 🇺🇸, & 🇬🇧.
Press Release ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/one-of-world%E2%80%99s-biggest-hacker-forums-taken-down
🕵️ Organised crime affects & undermines all levels of society.
📘 For more information on the developments in serious & organised crime and the threats it poses to the 🇪🇺, read our threat assessment: #SOCTA2021
➡️ https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/main-reports/socta-report
🚨 Today in Dublin, 🇮🇪 @gardainfo launched the Criminal Justice Initiative "Cooperating at an Int'l Level in Protecting Communities from Organised & Serious Crime."
🇺🇸 @USTreasury also announced sanctions against the 🇮🇪 Kinahan crime group.
Yesterday, Europol, with @Europe2022FR & @EU_Commission, hosted a meeting under the leadership of the French #EMPACT coordinator to discuss coordinated operational actions for threats linked to the war in Ukraine.
➡️ https://europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/common-response-to-serious-and-organised-crime-linked-to-war-in-ukraine
🚨 Europol, with @Europe2022FR & @EU_Commission, gathered representatives from the 27 🇪🇺 Member States to discuss coordinated operational actions for evolving threats linked to the war in Ukraine.
👮 The meeting took place under the #EMPACT framework.
🇦🇹, 🇩🇪, 🇭🇺 & 🇷🇴 authorities dismantled violent family-based criminal network involved in human trafficking for forced begging.
🚔 The investigation, supported by Europol & @Eurojust, led to 4 arrests & the seizure of over EUR 90 000 & LEI 9 400.
🔎 We need your help to #TraceAnObject and #StopChildAbuse.
Even the smallest tip can help investigators identify child abuse victims and find offenders.
⚠️ Do you recognise this logo? If so, report it anonymously here ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse
Executive Director De Bolle welcomed @Frontex Management delegation, led by Executive Director Leggeri, to our HQ today.
📄 On the agenda: Europol-Frontex cooperation & complementarity on operational responses to the war in 🇺🇦, migrant smuggling & THB, & protecting EU borders.
Today, Executive Director De Bolle hosted an operational call with all 27 EU heads of criminal police or operations.
Europol works closely with 🇪🇺 LEA to review key threats, enhance intelligence sharing, & adapt our operational responses to security threats from the war in 🇺🇦.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/Europol/status/1510978495572332554
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🇺🇦 Our operational team is now on the ground in Hungary, completing our deployments to frontline European countries.
Europol is united with the EU and its Member States in staunchly supporting Ukraine.
Follow our latest updates ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/europol%E2%80%99s-solidarity-ukraine
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/Europol/status/1510911819484958722
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