Seizure
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17 December 2025|PRESS RELEASE
Italian and Romanian authorities have seized assets worth more than EUR 40 million from an individual suspected of being affiliated with mafia families. Eurojust ensured that the freezing happened simultaneously in both countries.
16 December 2025|PRESS RELEASE
Authorities from the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine with the support of Eurojust took action against a criminal network operating call centres in Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kyiv, Ukraine that scammed victims across Europe. The criminal group established a professional organisation...
27 November 2025|PRESS RELEASE
A five-year investigation involving decrypted messages, phone interceptions and controlled deliveries has resulted in the arrest of 24 members of an international drug trafficking network. The group, which is based in Albania and Italy, is suspected of having trafficked over 1 300 kg of cocaine...
20 November 2025|PRESS RELEASE
A criminal group in Bulgaria is suspected of stealing thousands of artefacts across Europe, including from museums and trafficking them from Bulgaria to other European countries. Yesterday, authorities from six countries worked together with Eurojust and Europol to arrest 35 members of the criminal...
14 November 2025|PRESS RELEASE
German and French authorities worked closely together with Eurojust and Europol to arrest five members of an international migrant smuggling network. They are suspected of smuggling close to 900 migrants into Europe. Investigations into the group revealed that they collected at least EUR 4.1 million...
14 November 2025|PRESS RELEASE
During a coordinated action day, authorities from Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and the Republic of Moldova dismantled a drug trafficking network with support from Eurojust and Europol, leading to the arrest of 15 suspects. The criminal group is suspected of trafficking precursors, the base...
06 October 2025|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 on the mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders is a key judicial cooperation instrument aimed at strengthening asset recovery in cross-border cases across the European Union. This is the first Eurojust casework report on the practical implementation of this...
24 July 2025|PRESS RELEASE
Authorities in Romania and the United Kingdom have taken concerted action to block criminals who illegally withdrew cash from automated teller machines (ATMs) on a large scale. By using specialised computer programs and devices, the Romanian criminal network managed to steal an estimated EUR 580 000...
25 June 2025|PRESS RELEASE
A criminal group hacked into trusted online shop accounts to defraud customers of over EUR 400 000 by selling goods that would never arrive. The criminals were able to take over 405 seller accounts. Authorities from Romania and Germany worked together with Eurojust to take down the criminal group.
11 June 2025|PRESS RELEASE
Italian and Dutch authorities worked together to disrupt a cocaine trafficking route from the Netherlands to Sardinia. Following a four-year investigation, two suspects were arrested in Italy and one in the Netherlands during an action day on 11 June.