Police from eight European countries have brought down a major Balkan drug cartel, charging 61 people and seizing around 2.6 tonnes of cocaine. The group is alleged to have been... read more →
Montenegrin police have found more than 1,200 packages of cocaine in a shipment of bananas near the country’s capital of Podgorica. The seizure amounted to one tonne of cocaine, making... read more →
A cell within the notorious Montenegrin drug trafficking group, the Skaljari clan, has been arrested on Spain’s Canary Islands. During the arrests, Spanish authorities reportedly seized 400 kilograms of cocaine,... read more →
Nearly 3 tonnes of heroin destined for Europe has been intercepted in operations in Kazakhstan, Turkey, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands, the Turkish Interior Ministry reported on Wednesday. According to... read more →
Police in the state of Brescia in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy have made 35 arrests targeting a criminal organisation that imported large quantities of cocaine and hashish into... read more →
Twenty-five suspected members of an Albanian drug trafficking gang operating from Belgium have been arrested in a coordinated police action in five countries, according to a Europol statement. Fourteen searches... read more →
A total of 2,686 people were arrested for drug trafficking in the European Union last year by national police forces working in cooperation with the EU judicial agency, according to... read more →
Greek police seized nearly 1.2 tons of cocaine and arrested eight foreign nationals suspected of belonging to a criminal network that transported drugs from the Caribbean to Europe, Greek police... read more →
Italian investigators have arrested 94 people in a massive swoop targeting Sicilian mafia clans specialising in EU funds fraud. More than 600 agents from the Carabinieri and the financial crime... read more →
One of the UK’s most wanted criminals was arrested in the Dutch city of The Hague on Christmas day, according to the UK’s National Crime Agency. Daniel Burdett, 28, who... read more →
