organised crime

The torso of a Chinese woman was found in an apartment complex in Antwerp, Belgium, with investigators believing she may have been linked to a prostitution network.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – Romania’s anti-organized crime agency has carried out seven additional house searches in its investigation into divisive social media influencer Andrew Tate, an official said Thursday.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – The divisive social media personality Andrew Tate is expected at a court in Romania on Tuesday to appeal against a judge´s earlier decision to extend his arrest period from 24 hours to 30 days on charges of being part of an organized crime group, human trafficking, and rape.

Amid record seizures, authorities in Belgium are now reportedly struggling to get rid of what has been described as a “mountain” of cocaine.

A group of Albanians are accused of kidnapping and torturing a man in an attempt to extract a £400,000 (~$452,000) ransom from his family overseas.

Open borders Ireland is being used by Albanian human traffickers as a back door to ship illegal migrants into Britain.

Police from corruption-riddled Albania are to be stationed in Britain to help deport illegal boat migrants from the Muslim-majority country.

Jan Struijs, president of the Dutch police union, says the Netherlands, often praised by left-liberals for its drug decriminalisation policies, is now a “narco-state 2.0” where criminal dealers compete with the official Dutch economy.

Police in Portugal said Thursday they found just over 8 metric tons (8.8 short tons) of cocaine concealed inside banana shipments from Colombia.

Over 80 arrests have been made in London in a widespread and multi-force crackdown on drug gangs operating in and out of the capital city.

Spain has arrested 18 people in a strike against a criminal network smuggling hundreds of Albanian illegal migrants into the United Kingdom and the United States.

A Conservative councillor in Scotland had his home and cars firebombed in the third attack on the Tory politician in as many years.

Special police units searched around 30 buildings Tuesday in connection with money laundering and organized crime in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Investigators found an arsenal of weapons including explosives in a Paris suburb after raiding a local drug trafficking network.

Europol has warned of a growing trend of criminal gangs selling counterfeit Wuhan coronavirus medical certificates at European airports.

The international police coordination agency Interpol has warned that organised criminal gangs could attempt to sell fake versions of the coronavirus vaccine.

The head of the intelligence unit of the National Operational Department (NOA) of the Swedish police force said that many of the gangs in no-go vulnerable areas consist of second-generation migrants who have formed a new type of gang culture.

Police have uncovered a trove of “irreplaceable” books including first editions of works by Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton.

Court of Appeal judges have blocked the deportation of a foreign organised crime boss deemed a “serious threat to public security”, reportedly because he is married to an EU migrant.

British authorities have arrested 746 suspects, seized tens of millions in cash, dozens of firearms and high-value cars, 2 tonnes of drugs, and even grenades in the country’s “biggest ever law enforcement operation”.

Criminal gangs are funding illegal quarantine raves to sell drugs to young Britons during the national lockdown, police in the United Kingdom say.

The number of Albanian criminals in British prisons has increased fourfold since 2013, to the point where they now account for the largest group of foreigners in the estate.

Greek police have seized 11 tonnes of antiseptic gel from a warehouse owned by a Roma mafia boss who sought to profit from the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

The European Union police agency Europol has released a report claiming that criminals are adapting and taking advantage of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak through cybercrime, fraud, and counterfeit medical goods.

PARIS (AP) – Criminals are preying on a fearful public and disrupting the provision of medical care during the coronavirus pandemic by selling counterfeit products, impersonating health workers, and hacking computers as many citizens do their jobs online at home, European law enforcement agency Europol said Friday.

Police have arrested 94 people during a massive dawn raid on the Sicilian Mafia, in connection to a scam in which the mob defrauded the European Union out of millions of euros in farm subsidies.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – One of the Netherlands’ most-wanted fugitives, the alleged leader of a crime organization that prosecutors described as an “oiled killing machine,” is back in the country after Dutch police picked him up in Dubai, authorities said Thursday.

Police in several European countries have arrested dozens of suspected Nigerian mafia members as the crime organisation spreads across Italy and elsewhere.

VIENNA (AP) – Austrian and Moldovan authorities have broken up an organized crime ring suspected of smuggling nuclear materials, the European police agency said Friday.

The Swedish bomb squad were called to a shopping centre in the city of Kristianstad Monday after an explosive device was found outside a property.

Organised crime migrant clan boss Ibrahim Miri has claimed asylum in Germany after coming back into the country illegally only 15 weeks after authorities deported him. 

Hundreds of officers launched simultaneous raids across four German states Thursday morning against members of suspected people-smuggling gangs, just hours after 39 victims of such gangs were discovered dead in a freight truck in the United Kingdom. 

Cocaine consumption has hit an all-time high within Europe according to a report that states London’s use alone involves over a billion euros per year.

According to a new report, members of the Nigerian mafia are at risk of radicalisation as the influence of groups like Boko Haram spreads among members.

The European Commission has begun pushing for Albania and North Macedonia to be absorbed into the European Union.

Nearly a thousand police officers took part in a regional raid in 11 cities this week, targetting an Iraqi organised crime syndicate said to be part of the country’s biker or “rocker” gang scene.