An Albanian-speaking crime group known as Kompania Bello had developed a new model for smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe. Using sophisticated encrypted communication means, the organisation’s ringleader negotiated directly with South American drug cartels for large shipments of cocaine...

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) interpreted in its case-law the notion of ‘issuing judicial authority’ under Article 6(1) of the Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant and the surrender procedures between the Member States (EAW FD). In 2019, the CJEU clarified in several...

The Greek Desk is headed by Amalia Bakaloni, who is the National Member for Greece since September 2022. In 2024, the Greek Desk was involved in 537 new cases, 14 coordination meetings, 1 coordination centre, and 5 joint investigation teams.

‘Operation Pollino’: Large-scale coordinated action by judicial and law enforcement authorities in Belgium, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands

Crackdown on a criminal network illegally selling audiovisual material, by Italian, Bulgarian, German, Greek, French and Dutch authorities with the support of Eurojust. Parallel actions carried out by judicial and law enforcement authorities throughout Europe to shut down hundreds of illegal servers...