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🚨 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
Collaboration is key when it comes to investigating & prosecuting crypto-enabled crimes & money laundering.
To increase this cross-sector approach, Europol organised the 6th annual Global Conference on Criminal Finance & Cryptocurrencies #6CRC.
📺 Coming soon! While in Sofia, Executive Director De Bolle sat down with bTV journalist Svetoslav Ivanov for a wide ranging interview on Europol’s good cooperation with Bulgaria.
🇧🇬 Tune in to #120Минути on Sunday for more ⤵️
https://www.btv.bg/shows/120-minuti/
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⏰ Time is running out to apply to become our next Graphic & Web Design intern!
Apply before 07 September. Details ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/careers-procurement/internships/internship/623
📍 This week in 🇧🇬 Executive Director De Bolle had fruitful meetings with Minister Demerdzhiev, Secretary General Todorov & Head of Directorate for Combating Organised Crime Stoyanov.
On the agenda: joint efforts to combat migrant smuggling, drug trafficking, cybercrime & more.
Europol opened day 1 of the 6th Global Conference on Criminal Finances & Cryptocurrencies #6CrC, organised with @BaselInstitute
🪙 +1700 crypto experts from law enforcement, private sector, academia, regulatory bodies & media registered to attend, either in-person or virtually.
⚠️ Tobacco products & cigarette manufacturing equipment seized during an action day in Belgium.
Over 57 million cigarettes & 48 tons of cut tobacco were seized during the 🇧🇪-led action, supported by Europol, 🇵🇱 & 🇱🇹 authorities.
⚠️ Cigarette smugglers busted in 🇭🇺 for causing over EUR 8 million in budgetary losses.
👮 Europol & @Eurojust supported the operation, which involved law enforcement authorities in Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic & Poland.
Press release ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cigarette-smugglers-busted-in-hungary-for-causing-over-eur-8-million-in-budgetary-losses
🎙️ #ICYMI: Ep2 & 3 of The Europol Podcast dive in to Operation Greenlight, one of the largest & most sophisticated law enforcement operations dealing with encrypted communications.
🎧 Listen to the full story ⤵️
Part 1: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/europol-podcast/episode-2-operation-greenlight-part-1-international-sting
Part 2: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/europol-podcast/episode-3-operation-greenlight-part-2…
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