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Joined Apr 2022
🚫 Have you taught your child to #SayNo to unwanted interactions with strangers online?
⚠️ Safer online behaviour starts with knowing the risks.
Europol is here to help. Ahead of #SaferInternetDay, use these resources to help your child stay safe ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/sayno
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1622638415450603525
👏👏 Another criminal #cryptoservice dismantled thanks to int'l police cooperation: #Exclu!
👮 Europol provided key support from the early stages, including a dedicated investigative task force, secure information exchange & coordination of operational cross-border activities.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1621530063500877825
📣 Announcing the winning photographers of our annual photo competition #Capture22:
🔹 Making Europe Safer: 🇵🇹 @PSP_Portugal’s Pedro Manuel Reis Valongo
🔸 Caring for the Community: 🇪🇸 @guardiacivil’s Ricardo Rueda Fernandez
🔹 On the Road: 🇷🇴 @_PolitiaRomana_’s Florin Jugravu
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1621507938979573761
📍 Executive Director De Bolle welcomed the 🇸🇪 #JPSG delegation to our HQ for operational briefings on serious & organised crime, cybercrime & THB.
This meeting takes place as the Swedish Parliament assumes the rotating co-chairmanship of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1621502006820061184
RT @EU_IPO: Counterfeiting and piracy aren't victimless crimes: they are linked to drug trafficking, money laundering, cybercrime...
The EUIPO works closely with national and European partners to keep consumers safe.
At @Europol today, we have agreed on a joint strategy to tackle #IPcrime
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1621157526179037184
💡 Intellectual property crime continues to dynamically adapt to changing contexts.
👉 One way we're tackling it: multi-agency cooperation.
Europol is working closely with @EU_IPO & 🇪🇺 #JHAagencies on a joint strategy to fight against #IPCrime.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1621119533103845381
⚠️📸 New images are up on our #TraceAnObject website!
🔎 Each object was taken from the background of an image with sexually explicit material involving minors. Can you help us trace their origin & #StopChildAbuse?
Visit our website & let us know if you recognise anything ⤵️
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1620727533133041667
🚨 23 arrested in Spanish football match-fixing probe.
⚽ Known as Operation #Conifera, this investigation into match-fixing was carried out by 🇪🇸 @policia in cooperation with Europol & @INTERPOL_HQ.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1620347449540808705
📍 This week, Deputy Executive Director of Operations Jean-Philippe Lecouffe welcomed Acting Director Himamauli Das from @USTreasury #FinCEN.
🇪🇺🇺🇸 Together they discussed opportunities for future cooperation to prevent and combat financial and economic crime.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1619002702658441216
📆 Tomorrow is #DataProtectionDay!
As the EU criminal information hub, data protection is at the core of our business.
⚖️ Our team of experts, led by Data Protection Officer @Daniel_Drewer, are committed to balancing operational needs & respect for fundamental rights.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1618982234437844992
🚨 Cybercriminals stung as HIVE #ransomware infrastructure shut down.
🌍 The international operation involved authorities from 13 countries.
🔓 Law enforcement identified the decryption keys & shared them with many victims.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1618633662999760897
⚠️ Successful takedown of drug trafficking network in Italy & Albania.
The joint action day saw:
👮 350 officers in the field
👥 30 suspects arrested
🏘️ 31 locations searched
The #JAD was supported by Europol & @Eurojust.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1618601392528031752
🔎 But while the 2022 campaign may be over, the search for some of the #EUMostWanted fugitives is not.
⚠️ Our ENFAST colleagues will continue to update the EU Most Wanted website.
Visit regularly & let us know if you recognise anyone
👉 http://www.eumostwanted.eu
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1617905149820932100
🎉 We’ve seen outstanding results for the 2022 #EUMostWanted campaign!
👮 14 fugitive cases were solved, 5 as a direct result from a tip from a member of the public.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1617905146083835906
🚫 (Cyber)criminals abuse #cryptocurrency exchanges.
🪙 In this case, almost half of all #Bitzlato transactions were linked to criminal activities.
🎯 Targeting crucial crime facilitators, like #cryptoexchanges, is becoming a key priority in the battle against cybercrime.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1617509683505369089
🚨 #Bitzlato: senior management arrested.
The operation, led by 🇫🇷 & 🇺🇸 authorities with Europol support, took down the service's digital infrastructure in France.
👥 Leading members of the platform's management were also interrogated.
Press release ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/bitzlato-senior-management-arrested
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1617509283670773761
📍 Last week Deputy Executive Director of Operations Lecouffe met with Deputy Director General of the 🇹🇷 National Police Erhan Gülveren in Ankara.
They explored possibilities to enhance our partnership on challenges, including drug trafficking & migrant smuggling.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1617465945450070016
📍 Europol welcomed a delegation of 🇦🇲 Ministry of Justice Services officials to learn first-hand the mission and work of different Europol teams.
👮 The visit was organised as part of the @eu_near -funded project “Fighting Organised Crime in the Eastern Partnership Region.”
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1616439919672528898
💻 The #NoMoreRansom portal includes a repository of tools that can decrypt data locked by some types of ransomware.
🔓 The goal is to help victims regain access to their files without paying criminals.
👉 So remember: #DontPay & #DontNegotiate! Visit⤵️ https://www.nomoreransom.org/en/index.html
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1616087169231101954
⚠️ While ransomware has been around for 30 years, the number, scope & severity of attacks keep growing.
🌐 But international cooperation between law enforcement & industry has become stronger & more efficient in tackling this threat.
👉 One example: #NoMoreRansom.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1616087166383280128
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