The European Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation

• Eurojust’s cross-border investigations in 2025 continued to fight organised crime

  In 2025, the EU’s judicial cooperation hub worked together with national authorities from all over the globe to solve complex cross-border investigation and take action against organised criminal networks harming our societies every day. From drug trafficking networks, to large-scale credit card fraud and art trafficking, Eurojust was at the heart of combatting serious organised crime in 2025.

• ICPA receives EUR 5 million to continue investigations into crime of aggression against Ukraine

  The International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA), hosted at Eurojust, has received EUR 5 million from the European Commission to continue supporting the national investigations into the crime of aggression related to the war in Ukraine. The continuation of the ICPA will ensure that the foundation is laid for the upcoming Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.

• Eurojust supports seizure of mafia assets worth EUR 40 million

  Italian and Romanian authorities have seized assets worth more than EUR40million from an individual suspected of being affiliated with mafia families. Eurojust ensured that the freezing happened simultaneously in both countries.

• Fraudulent call centres in Ukraine rolled up

  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 with employees who received a percentage of the proceeds for each completed scam. The estimated damage to more than 400 known victims is over EUR10million.

• Second edition of WBCJ Winter Academy prepares next generation of Western Balkans prosecutors and judges

  The Western Balkans Criminal Justice Project (WBCJ), with the support of the JITs Network Secretariat at Eurojust, successfully held the second edition of the Winter Academy on Judicial Cooperation in Cross-Border Organised Crime from 9 to 12 December 2025 at the European Public Law Organization Headquarters in Athens, Greece. This annual training programme is designed for entry-level prosecutors and judges from the Western Balkans, focusing this year on money laundering and asset recovery.