The European Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation

• Servers used for cybercrime around the world taken down

  A website allegedly offering IP proxy services for cybercriminals in 102 countries has been targeted by authorities from eight countries. After identifying numerous victims of the malware used to gain access to IP addresses for the proxy service, authorities from France, Austria, the Netherlands and the United States started working together with coordination by Eurojust and Europol to take action against the service. The same people administering the proxy service are also suspected of hosting a payment platform for the proxy service.

• Judicial cooperation key to arresting leaders of online fraud group

  A criminal group suspected of running an online fraud scheme in Germany has been dismantled following judicial cooperation coordinated by Eurojust. The group is suspected of having defrauded victims of around EUR 1 million. As the alleged leader of the group was based in France, judicial cooperation was essential to stop the criminal group’s activities.

• Joint investigation team disrupts group using self-igniting parcels for terrorist attacks

  A joint investigation team of German, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish and UK authorities, set up under the coordination of Eurojust has been crucial in exposing the operation behind several attacks carried out across Europe involving self-igniting parcels. Authorities joined forces when several parcels ignited in Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom, causing damages for the postal services transporting the packages. The cooperative efforts led to the identification of 22 suspects in Lithuania and Poland who are suspected of having been working on behalf of themilitary-intelligence service of the Russian Federation. Two cases have now been sent to courts in Lithuania and Poland, with trials expected to happen later in the year.

• Seized phones in small Swedish town expose major international criminal network

  Actions taken by authorities around the globe and coordinated by Eurojust and Europol led to the arrests of 15 suspects and the dismantling of a sophisticated drug trafficking operation. The actions started after Swedish authorities seized two phones in a small town. After analysing the data they contained, an international criminal network suspected trafficking large amounts of drugs was discovered and authorities from four countries worked together to take serious action against the large network, which was active around the world.

• Cocaine trafficking network exposed by following financial trail

  A high-value target (HVT) at the heart of a major cocaine trafficking operation has been arrested, along with six other suspects. The arrests followed an investigation by French, Italian and Swiss authorities, coordinated by Eurojust and Europol. By tracing a financial trail, authorities uncovered a money laundering network that was laundering the illicit proceeds of a criminal group trafficking cocaine from South America into Europe.