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🐶 Teun, Browser & Vito visited Europol to show off their skills during the AP Twins annual experts meeting.
The event brought together 100+ experts of fighting CSE content online & offline to exchange insights into new, innovative investigative methods.
🐾 Have you seen a #DigiDog in action?
🐶 These specially-trained K9s are able to sniff out hidden hard drives, mobile phones, or other digital storage devices.
👮 They are part of a 🇳🇱 @POL_Lnd_Eenheid project aimed to help investigators find CSE material.
⚠️ 20 countries spin a web for human traffickers during EU-wide hackathon.
🌐 85 investigators checked 114 platforms for human trafficking activities during #EMPACT joint action day, organised with support from Europol & @Eurojust.
Details ⤵️
http://ow.ly/fVcG50KOKTf #EMPACT
🚨 32 arrests in series of actions against the Italian mafia in Spain.
👮 The sting follows a complex operation by 🇪🇸 @guardiacivil, together with 🇮🇹 @_Carabinieri_ & @GDF, with the support of Europol & @Eurojust.
Details ➡️ http://ow.ly/cZVZ50KNGMT
📍 Roughly 200 data protection experts are at our HQ this week for the 9th #EDEN conference, “It’s the end of the world as we know it: data protection & law enforcement in a shifting world order.”
🧠 The event is organised by the Europol Data Protection Experts Network.
🎙️ Out now! Ep5 of The Europol Podcast: Catching Cocaine Traffickers.
🚢 Hear the fascinating story of how Europol worked with 🇧🇷, 🇪🇸 & 🇺🇸 authorities to shut down an organised crime group shipping cocaine worldwide.
🔊 Listen here ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/europol-podcast/episode-5-catching-cocaine-traffickers
🚨 Migrant smugglers using private aircraft grounded in 🇧🇪 & 🇮🇹.
👮 5 suspects were arrested & 2 planes seized during the joint action day, which included 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹& 🇺🇸 law enforcement authorities, and the support of Europol & @Eurojust.
📍 Executive Director De Bolle met 🇪🇸 Minister Grande-Marlaska, & the Directors General of @policia & @guardiacivil today in Madrid.
Spain is a highly trusted contributor to the 🇪🇺 law enforcement community & together we have realised many successful operations.
Deputy Executive Director Operations Jean-Philippe Lecouffe welcomed @EU_IPO Executive Director Christian Archambeau to Europol's HQ today.
🤝 Our agencies work closely to combat emerging criminal threats in #IPcrime & safeguard consumers across Europe, #MakingEuropeSafer.
🚨 One of Europe’s biggest money launderers arrested in Spain.
💶 Linked to the Kinahan clan, the suspect allegedly laundered €200 million in just over a year.
👮 The investigation was led by 🇪🇸, together with 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 & 🇮🇪 authorities.
Details ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/one-of-europe%E2%80%99s-biggest-money-launderers-arrested-in-spain #EMPACT
💡 The #EUInnovationHub for Internal Security held its first annual event in Brussels this week.
🗨️ Hub members, which include Europol's Innovation Lab, met to discuss encryption & AI, the Hub’s priorities for 2022.
Details ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/annual-meeting-of-eu-innovation-hub-research-and-innovation-making-difference-for-citizens%E2%80%99-security
🚨 Spanish authorities break into narco bank.
💶 Over EUR 4 million in cash was seized from the criminal network providing illicit financial services to various criminal organisations, mainly linked to drug trafficking.
Press Release ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/spanish-authorities-break-narco-bank
🎙️ Have you listened to Episode 4 of The Europol Podcast yet?
🌐 Dive into the global action that disrupted the world's most dangerous malware: #EMOTET.
Details ➡️ https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/europol-podcast/episode-4-the-king-of-malware
📍 Executive Director De Bolle met Chief of Police Franz Ruf in Vienna.
🇦🇹 She also met officials from Bundeskriminalamt & the Counterterrorism & Intelligence Service.
Topics discussed included how Europol can better support our joint fight against organised crime & terrorism.
📍 Deputy Executive Director Lecouffe welcomed James Lee, @IRS_CI Chief of Criminal Investigations to Europol.
🇺🇸 The IRS is an important partner in the fight against cybercrime & jointly supported several operations as part of @EC3Europol's Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce.
📣 There’s still time to register for the 2022 #EuropolIPConf in Rome!
Hosted in partnership with @IACC_GetReal & @GDF, this event explores #anticounterfeiting & #antipiracy enforcement in times of crises.
Event details & registration information here ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/events/2022-europol-intellectual-property-crime-conference-%E2%80%93-rome-italy
📍 Today in 🇬🇷 Executive Director De Bolle met @hellenicpolice Chief Konstantinos Skoumas.
While there, she also met @naftilias, @HCoastGuard & Customs officials and visited the Port of Piraeus for a demonstration of their x-ray machines and drug sniffing dogs.
📍 Executive Director Catherine De Bolle met 🇨🇾 @MinJusticeCY Stefi Drakou & Chief of @Cyprus_Police Stylianos Papatheodorou this week in Cyprus.
👮♀️👮♂️ Direct contact with our key partners across Europe enables Europol to better support their work #MakingEuropeSafer.
Europol’s Deputy Executive Director Jürgen Ebner welcomed 🇳🇴 @Justisdep Minister Emilie Enger Mehl to our HQ today.
As criminal networks increasingly operate across borders, cooperation with 3rd countries is critical. Norway is an important partner in #MakingEuropeSafer.
🎙️ Don't miss Ep4 of The Europol Podcast: The King of Malware 👑
👮 Find out how law enforcement from around the globe banded together to take down of one of the most lethal & destructive botnets of the last decade, #EMOTET.
Listen here ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/europol-podcast/episode-4-the-king-of-malware
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