Tag: Europol
Police shut down “one of the most dangerous” cybershops for stolen identities: Europol
This international investigation was led by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Dutch National Police (Politie), and a command post was established at Europol headquarters on the day of the operation to coordinate worldwide enforcement efforts. Simultaneous operations across the world were also carried out against users of this platform, resulting in […]
Why the mafia believes in Denmark. And how Denmark has made them a fortune
Reading the news in Denmark is a more cheerful affair than in many countries. Topping happiness metrics, winning the handball, overcoming inequality: it’s all rosy here – not rotten at all. It can also sometimes feel just a little boring. Morten Beiter, the author of ‘Mafiaen Kommer’, a book warning of the Italian mafia’s tentacular […]
Danes don’t care about crime
Just 9 percent of Danes are seriously worried about being personally exposed to crime, Ritzau reports. The figure comes from a study carried out by the Ministry of Justice, the Police and the Crime Prevention Council in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen. This is the lowest level of fear of crime since records began. […]
EuroMarket’s case dismissed
A six-year investigation into what police described as one of the biggest drug and money laundering cases in Icelandic history has ended without charges. The former defendant in the case is demanding an apology. In December 2017, Europol announced that joint operations of the Icelandic, Polish and Dutch services led to the dismantling of a […]
Europol adds the suspected blackmailers of the psychotherapy center to the most wanted list
Last week, the Helsinki District Court sentenced Aleksanteri Kivimäki in absentia for his suspected role in the hacking of patient data.
The Garda engages in international operations on four continents
DUBLIN, Ireland – An Garda Sochna has taken part in a major international law enforcement operation, working with INTERPOL and law enforcement agencies in 13 countries on four continents. The operation known internationally as Operation JACKAL, but called Operation SKEIN in Ireland, took place during the last week of last month until the first week […]
3D printed weapons and radicalized lone wolves
The security police see an increase in young men who are radicalized online, so-called loners, especially within the violent right-wing extremism. Manuals for weapons manufacturing and direct calls to carry out attacks are spread there. At the same time, the European police agency, Europol, warns of the development of 3D printed weapons, something that has […]
EU Commissioner: Ukraine’s arms trade fuels violence in criminal networks in the European Union
Such smuggling “fuels violence in criminal networks in the European Union”, Johansson said, adding that the center will be a “one-stop shop” that will allow the EU’s border agency Frontex to support local border agencies and enable Europol. to share information. An EU official highlighted the differences in the arms trade process: “It’s hard to […]
Brussels comments on Ukraine’s allegations of arms smuggling
The EU has no reason to doubt that Kyiv will keep weapons away from the black market, said a senior official A senior spokesman for EU foreign affairs seemed to allay Member States’ fears that weapons delivered to Ukraine found their way into the black market. In an interview published on Thursday by a Ukrainian […]
The police arrested eight suspects of human trafficking
Finnish authorities have arrested eight people on suspicion of human trafficking after a week-long international effort. Investigations targeting cleaning companies operating in different locations also led to the identification of at least six victims. The places investigated as part of the investigation were shops, hotels, shopping centers, warehouses, car washes, schools, daycare centers, restaurants and […]
West wants to track down weapons sent to Ukraine FT
EU and NATO members? Have no idea? where the arms go after they arrive, an official told the newspaper Concerns are growing among NATO and EU members over Ukraine’s handling of Western weapons, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Western countries are now trying to set up a special tracking mechanism to try to prevent […]
NATO, the EU wants to track weapons sent to Ukraine’s media
Western nations? Go blank? on where the weapons are at the moment they enter Ukraine, an official told the Financial Times Concerns are growing among NATO and EU members over how Ukraine handles the weapons provided by the West, Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Western countries are now trying to set up a special tracking […]
The feed material at COVID risk is imported to Finland
In 2021, a Finnish fur feed mixture imported fish waste from Denmark for use as a feed raw material. In Denmark, fish waste was stored in a farm that also had dead minks that had been killed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Danish party should have applied to the Finnish Food Safety Authority for […]
Police fear that Western arms shipments to Ukraine may backfire
Swedish law enforcement suggests that some of the weapons delivered to Kyiv may end up in gang arsenals Swedish police have expressed concern that weapons delivered to Ukraine by its Western allies could go to the Scandinavian country and end up in the arsenals of criminal gangs when the conflict is over. Detective Commissioner Gunnar […]
Europol is launching an operation to identify Russian assets subject to EU sanctions
“Today, 11 April 2022, Europol, together with EU Member States, Eurojust and Frontex, launched Operation Oscar to support EU Member States’ economic investigations into criminal assets owned by individuals and legal entities sanctioned by the Russian occupation of Ukraine.” Europol said in a press release on Monday. According to the press release, the mission also […]
Finnish customs seize a record amount of snuff and drugs
In 2021, the number of customs offenses was at its lowest in eight years. This is mainly due to the COVID-19 situation, which caused a decline in passenger travel, but there is also a wider change behind it. – The social impact of the fight against customs crime increased last year, although the total number […]
Police seize amphetamine, cocaine in one of Finland’s largest drug offenses
On Thursday, the Eastern Uusimaa Police Department announced that it had seized 113 grams of amphetamine and 103 kilograms of cocaine from a suspected drug offense in Finland in September 2021. "Seizures are one of the largest, if not the largest, individual amphetamine seizures in connection with criminal cases under investigation by the Finnish police." […]
Long prison sentences were handed down in Finland’s largest drug trial
The Helsinki District Court has sentenced five men to 10 to 12 years in prison for a large-scale drug offense in which drugs were brought to Finland from the Netherlands hidden inside consignments of flowers and houseplants. More than 20 other people were also convicted of minor crimes. According to the police, between mid-2018 and […]
Five far-right terrorist suspects were arrested
Five men were arrested on Friday on suspicion of preparing for a terrorist attack. Five were arrested on Thursday night in Kankaanpää, and they arrived at the District Court of Southwest Finland on Friday. At a news conference on Friday night, police declined to say whether the men intended to target an attack on a […]
National Round-Up: COVID-19 infection tracking delayed due to lack of contact information
Always the same number Another concern at PSA involves people not answering calls when they call or answering text messages they send after a missed call. The number that PSA calls from when reaching the public is always from the number 32320511. First time for election observers A delegation of eight election observers from the […]
12 accused in Finland through an FBI-led sting operation
Twelve people have been prosecuted in Finland as part of Operation Greenlight / Trojan Shield, an extensive international investigation that led to the seizure of large drugs and weapons, the prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday. The charges are mainly for serious drug offenses. Six of the accused are still in custody. According to the prosecutor, […]
Four years in prison for working at an illegal cigarette factory
Volodymyr Voznichak, 33, from Ukraine, was also fined. It amounts to 71 million kroner, it is stated in court. The case is unusual. For several months before the action in the spring, police officers from the Netherlands, Poland and Denmark worked together on the international affair. The investigation revealed that the cigarettes produced near Vamdrup […]
An attempt was made to smuggle 4 kg of cocaine on the Norræna ferry
A couple of thirty-forty-year-olds were detained after arriving in Iceland on the Norræna ferry on suspicion of trying to smuggle large amounts of drugs. The woman and the man have been in custody for three weeks. In a special hiding place in their car, police found about 4 kilograms of cocaine. The first media reports […]
The Data Protection Commissioner raped the Finnish police for a controversial facial identity application
The Office of the Deputy Ombudsman has issued a note to the Police Board on the use of the controversial Clearview AI facial recognition software. The program is based on the illegal processing of people’s personal data, including publicly published social media photographs that have been excavated from the web to assist law enforcement in […]
Charged with murder of rapper: Was warned by PET about threat
– I thought he (the 25-year-old, ed.) Was going to liquidate me. I even thought I was hit, the defendant has explained. He fired two shots out of the side window of a Jeep Cherokee after the 25-year-old and another man – according to the murder defendant – had attacked him. It happened, according to […]
Judgment for cigarette factory – cheated the Treasury for 71 million
In addition, he is permanently deported from Denmark, and he is fined DKK 71.3 million – corresponding to the amount that the Treasury was evaded. He now has two weeks to consider whether he will appeal the sentence. The 33-year-old man participated in the manufacture of the 41 million cigarettes from November 2020 to March […]
Police illegally set up cameras against property for 13 days
The Code of Judicial Procedure states that the police must first have a permit from a judge if they want to monitor a place that is not freely accessible. But it did not happen. The case appears from an access to documents that Ritzau has received from the Ministry of Justice. The courts must send […]
Operation Trojan Shield and the FBI trap
The documentary depicts what happened in connection with and after the extensive police operations and arrests that took place on June 7, 2021. The documentary was completed on June 11, 2021. The sounds in the documentary are taken from SVT, Swedish Radio, Europol’s press conference, and Aftonbladet TV. The documentary is made by Johanna Heed […]
Cash, drugs, weapons seized as 800 arrested in strikes against global crime
BRUSSELS, Belgium: More than 800 arrests have been made in recent days by law enforcement officials from 16 countries during a multinational effort to crack down on organized crime, according to Europol’s Deputy CEO Jean-Phillipe Lecouffe. In addition, more than $ 48 million in cash and cryptocurrencies were confiscated. Law enforcement officials from Europol, the […]
KRP: Nearly 100 arrests made in Finland as part of an FBI-led global crime
Reports released on Tuesday revealed that for years the FBI has been secretly disguising secret communications between criminals in Anom, an application that was supposed to be secretly impenetrably encrypted and allowed the crime conspiracy out of the curious eyes of law enforcement. The FBI had developed the app to fill the vacuum left by […]
155 arrested in Sweden in global operation
At ten o’clock, the European police cooperation Europol will hold a press conference to tell about the onslaught around the world yesterday against organized crime. Swedish police are also on site. Hundreds of people were arrested during the raids that could take place after the police managed to infiltrate another encryption service (Am0on) where criminals […]
The Finnish police denied and then granted the controversial facial recognition application
Officials from the Finnish National Investigation Agency (NBI) have used the controversial face recognition application Clearview AI, although its use was not widely known in the organization, according to documents seen by Yle. NBI’s attention was first brought to the attention of the US digital news agency Buzzfeed. Clearview AI allows the user to upload […]
The US media warned the Finnish police about the controversial facial recognition application
Officials from the Finnish National Investigation Agency (NBI) have used the controversial face recognition application Clearview AI, although its use was not widely known in the organization, according to documents seen by Yle. NBI’s attention was first brought to the attention of the US digital news agency Buzzfeed. Clearview AI allows the user to upload […]
Illegal cigarettes for millions were going to Britain
An illegal cigarette factory at Vamdrup produced on the loose with its eyes fixed on the British market. This is stated in a press release from the European Police Cooperation on Tuesday. In it, Europol releases new details about the case, which the Danish police originally announced in connection with an action last week. Here, […]
Foreigners imprisoned for running a cigarette factory in Vamdrup
Several million cigarettes were found here, while 13 men from Poland and Ukraine were arrested. This is stated by the East Jutland Police in a press release on Wednesday. – During the operation, approximately 11 million cigarettes and a large amount of professional production equipment were seized, says deputy police inspector at SEV Morten Vegger […]
Right now
The police are on their way to solve three murders of gang criminals in Norrköping, charges will soon be brought against six people. This is happening, much thanks to the fact that French police last spring cracked the encryption in Encrochat – a popular chat tool among Europe’s criminals. In Norrköping, it is about pure […]
Despite the scare scenario, the Danish special agreement with Europol is blue-stamped
Despite scare scenarios, the agreement between Denmark and Europol ensures proper cooperation in the fight against terrorism and other serious crime. This is stated in a new evaluation report from the European Commission on European police cooperation. Several yes parties otherwise warned about the scenario during the vote on the legal reservation in December 2015. […]
Speculator must get rid of half a billion kroner
In addition, interest must be added, just as he must pay legal costs of 400,000 kroner – within 14 days. Roskilde Bank went bankrupt in 2008. It was forced to its knees by several expensive exposures with real estate investors such as Kenneth Schwartz Thomsen. The claim is based in particular on surety bonds relating […]
Speculator is sentenced to pay half a billion kroner
In addition, default interest must be added, just as he must pay legal costs of DKK 400,000 – all within 14 days. Roskilde Bank went bankrupt in 2008. It was forced to its knees by several expensive exposures with real estate investors such as Kenneth Schwartz Thomsen. The claim is based in particular on surety […]
Police: The gang hid EUR 20 million worth of drugs among flowers imported to Finland
Finnish police say they found a massive smuggling operation that brought drugs from the Netherlands to Finland that were hidden in batches of flowers. According to law enforcement agencies, between mid-2018 and May last year, there were 17 drug shipments. They estimate the street value of the drug at more than 20 million euros. Two […]
Large arms trade took place in the marketplace on the dark net
The contact arose on a website called Berlusconi, which was closed after an operation by Europol and Italian police last year. Precisely at Berlusconi on the Dark Web, undercover officers from the Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) police unit in the USA have repeatedly searched for criminals. This is what special agent Christopher Diorio says on […]
