BRUSSELS, June 16 (Reuters) – Police across Europe have dismantled a dark web drug marketplace known as ‘Archetyp Market’, the pan-European Europol police body said on Monday, which added that U.S. authorities had also assisted them in the operation. Europol said police operations took place last week across Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain and Sweden…
AMSTERDAM, June 27 (Reuters) – European policing agency Europol said on Tuesday that the takedown of Encrochat, an underground company that offered criminals supposedly secure encrypted communications, led to more than 6,500 arrests and 900 million euros ($980 million) in seized assets. The system had an estimated 60,000 users when it shut down abruptly in…
A drugs cartel believed to control up to a third of Europe’s cocaine trade was taken down in a six-country bust, with 30 tonnes of drugs seized, Europol said on Monday. The European policing agency had helped co-ordinate the takedown, with police arresting a total of 49 suspects in raids in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain…
Foreign mobsters, illicit weapons, and drugs could enter the EU on the back of the Ukraine war posing a threat to law and order in the bloc. “The heads of criminal organisations could take advantage of the situation to enter the Schengen area [an EU passport-free travel zone],” the French EU presidency warned in a…
The refugee crisis has exacerbated human trafficking and modern slavery with global action needed to tackle the criminal gangs now selling people as well as firearms and drugs, Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Monday (05/03). (Reuters Photo/Kieran Guilbert) New Delhi. The refugee crisis has exacerbated human trafficking and modern slavery with global action needed…
British Prime Minister Theresa May called for a deal with the EU on post-Brexit security cooperation at the Munich Security Conference Photo: AFP MUNICH, Germany British Prime Minister Theresa May pleaded Saturday for an urgent deal with the European Union on post-Brexit security cooperation, warning that citizens’ lives were at stake. In a speech at the Munich…