This Issue in focus provided brief background information for the discussions during Workshop No. 2 “Judicial cooperation in cases involving (pre)precursors and New Psychoactive Substances (NPS)” in the context of the strategic meeting on drug trafficking held by Eurojust on 29 and 30 September 2014...

Purpose: This report presents the mid-term evaluation of the implementation of the Eurojust action plan against trafficking in human beings 2012-2016 (the “action plan”). It reviews Eurojust’s work in the fight against trafficking in human beings (‘’THB”) during the first two years of the action...

BlackShades was an organisation developing and selling malicious software (malware) that enabled buyers to infect computers and remotely take over and control the operations of the infected computers, and perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attacks, among other things. An FBI...

This report concerns Eurojust’s experience in the field of the prevention and resolution of conflicts of jurisdiction, in particular, in the period from 2009 to 2014. The report is based on Eurojust’s casework, seminars organised or co-organised by Eurojust and contributions made by Eurojust. The...

This report provides a source of information for practitioners involved in the investigation and prosecution of trafficking in human beings (THB) for the purpose of labour exploitation. It elaborates on a number of indicators of ‘labour exploitation’ that have emerged from national case law. Given...

A typical cross-border fraud case would tend to follow logical geographical lines and could, for example, focus on a particular language group. Operation ‘Vertigo’ did not follow a usual pattern. Its sheer scale and complexity made it exceptional. In this carousel fraud case, the organised crime...

The nature of Trafficking in Human Beings (THB) cases present inherent difficulties for investigations and prosecutions. Most of these obstacles were identified in the mid-term report on the implementation of the Eurojust Action Plan against THB and are confirmed by this report. Indeed, THB...

A German investigation into an OCG called Avalanche involved in malware, phishing and spam activities commenced in 2012, after a wave of encryption ransomware infected a substantial number of computer systems, blocking users’ access. The investigation exposed the existence of a highly sophisticated...

This Report concerns Eurojust’s casework in the field of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) in the period 2014-2016. In this period, Eurojust continued to play a key role in improving the application of the EAW. The number of EAW cases registered at Eurojust has steadily increased, from 217 cases in...