Synthetic Drugs, Cocaine to Europe, and Cyber Crime Booms: EU, US Reports

Criminal gangs are still booming in Sweden, driven by arms and drugs trafficking. The Scandinavian country has moved from being one of the safest countries in the world to having the highest homicide rate in the whole European Union: double that of Croatia, the second country in the ranking. Increasingly, many of the young people are at risk of social exclusion. Once recruited, they become key pieces of organized crime because they cannot be tri…

For months, police from Bonn worked with colleagues in Spain, Holland, Belgium and Poland. Now, they searched 33 residential and commercial properties – and secured weapons and cocaine.

Synthetic Drugs, Cocaine to Europe, and Cyber Crime Booms: EU, US Reports

Synthetic Drugs, Cocaine to Europe, and Cyber Crime Booms: EU, US Reports As political shifts in the United States threaten to hinder anti-narcotics efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized crime is well-positioned to capitalize on new markets, drug manufacturing processes, and technology, two recent reports revealed.The reports, from the governments of the United States and the European Union, show synthetic drugs are continuing to…

In a pan-European campaign against organised drug crime, forces have executed eleven arrest warrants.

The police apparently managed to strike against organized crime. Investigators moved out in several European countries early in the morning and searched more than 30 objects.

On Thursday morning, several homes and commercial premises were searched in Bonn and the region because of the suspicion of trafficking in narcotics. The searches were part of a pan-European operation. Eleven people were arrested.