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May222023

News Brief – Week of 15 May 2023

NewsbriefingsBy Gabriel Monterrosa22nd May 2023

15.05.23 – 31 migrant smugglers arrested in Austria. Arrests: 6 suspects (5 French, 1 Moroccan) on the action day in France; 25 French nationals arrested in Austria between August and September 2022 Modus operandi: The suspects drove all the way from France to the Serbia-Hungary border, from where they smuggled at least 255 migrants to…

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May152023

News Brief – Week of 8 May 2023

NewsbriefingsBy Gabriel Monterrosa15th May 2023

09.05.23 – Money laundering and people smuggling network dismantled by the NCA. Sixteen people have been convicted following a major National Crime Agency investigation into a West London-based organised crime group involved in international money laundering and people smuggling. Members of the network smuggled in excess of £42 million in cash out of the UK,…

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May82023

News Brief – Week of 1 May 2023

NewsbriefingsBy Gabriel Monterrosa8th May 2023

02.05.23 – 288 dark web vendors arrested in major marketplace seizure. In an operation coordinated by Europol and involving nine countries, law enforcement have seized the illegal dark web marketplace “Monopoly Market” and arrested 288 suspects involved in buying or selling drugs on the dark web. More than EUR 50.8 million (USD 53.4 million) in…

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May12023

News Brief – Week of 24 April 2023

NewsbriefingsBy Gabriel Monterrosa1st May 2023

25.04.23 – 90 victims of sexual exploitation identified. An operation involving Czech, Finnish and Hungarian authorities, and coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, has led to the identification of more than 90 victims of sexual exploitation. 13 members of a criminal network are under suspicion of recruiting – primarily Czech – victims and transporting them to…

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Apr242023

News Brief – Week of 17 April 2023

NewsbriefingsBy Gabriel Monterrosa24th April 2023

17.04.23 – Italy: Police seize 2 tons of cocaine floating off Sicily. Italian authorities have seized almost two tons (2,000 kilograms) of cocaine off the coast of Sicily, officials said Monday. The haul has a street value of about €400 million ($440 million). The drugs were stored in about 70 waterproof packages and carefully sealed,…

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Apr172023

News Brief – Week of 10 April 2023

NewsbriefingsBy Gabriel Monterrosa17th April 2023

13.04.23 – Three charged over online banking scam. Three men have been charged with fraud offences as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into a website which enabled criminals to subvert banking anti-fraud measures. NCA cybercrime investigators began probing the paid for subscription website www.OTP.Agency in June 2020. The site provided a service to…

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Apr102023

News Brief – Week of 3 April 2023

NewsbriefingsBy Gabriel Monterrosa10th April 2023

03.04.23 – Money laundering couple caught smuggling criminal cash during lockdown. A husband and wife from Hertfordshire who tried to smuggle more than £200,000 out of the UK during the height of the Covid lockdown have been convicted of money laundering. Ardian Sharra, aged 51, and Valbona Laloshi, aged 41, from Tring were investigated by…

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Apr32023

News Brief – Week of 27 March 2023

NewsbriefingsBy Gabriel Monterrosa3rd April 2023

27.03.23 – Female Mexican drug Cartel assassins fight in new organised crime phenomenon. Female gangsters are the newest organised crime “phenomenon” gripping Mexico as women assassins are completing hits for drug cartels. Officials in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas have noticed more and more women becoming embroiled in the shady world of Mexican drug…

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Mar272023

News Brief – Week of 20 March 2023

Newsbriefings, PublicationBy Gabriel Monterrosa27th March 2023

21.03.23 – Six drug traffickers bag 156 years imprisonment in Lagos, Ogun. The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos and Ogun state has sentenced six drug traffickers to a total of 156 years imprisonment for offenses bordering on drug dealing, transportation, and conspiracy to transport illicit substances filed against them by the National Drug Law…

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Mar202023

News Brief – Week of 13 March 2023

News, NewsbriefingsBy Gabriel Monterrosa20th March 2023

14.03.23 – A Homemade Submarine Was Found Carrying 2 Tons of Cocaine and 2 Dead Bodies. A narco submarine was discovered off the coast of Colombia containing over two tons of cocaine worth $87 million, as well as two dead bodies. The 15-meter long homemade sub was found floating in the Pacific over the weekend,…

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