An organised crime group (OCG) in Romania, Austria and the United Kingdom allegedly forced its victims into prostitution, using the so-called 'loverboy' approach, where young men tempt women from deprived backgrounds to work for them. It is also alleged that the suspects subjected the victims to...

In 2019, a major operation led by the Italian desk at Eurojust against an OCG involved in large scale pay-TV piracy and fraud, resulted in over 200 servers being taken down. Investigations into the activities of this criminal network, which involved illegal online streaming through cheap settop...

Working within a JIT significantly facilitated cross-border police and judicial cooperation but could not fully overcome certain legal and operational challenges: difficulties with gathering evidence to meet national legal criteria of an OCG, to be able to prosecute for organised crime; absence of a...