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New Europol Report Delves Into EU's Most Threatening Criminal Networks

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The EU's law enforcement agency stresses criminal networks exploit vunerabilities in financial systems and digital infrastructure, operate across borders and adapt quickly.

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More than 700 criminal networks with over 400,000 members from 118 nations are currently active in Europe. The gangs are active, among other things, in drug trafficking, cybercrime and trafficking in human beings. Despite successful beatings against individual groups, new networks are constantly emerging. "Criminals have learned to hide themselves in public," said EU Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner. According to the re…

·Vienna, Austria
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Pretnja od organizovanog kriminala u EU and dalje je snažna and he eats and dalje čvrsto čvrsto korenjen u Evropi, as akcije poremetile kriminalne mreže širom Unije, it was shown by a new analysis of Europol koju su danas predstavili ta organizacija, Evropska komisija and kiparsko predsedavanje EU.

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Active criminal networks in the European Union are becoming more flexible, more digitised and more difficult to break down, warning Europol in a new analysis presented by the European Commission and the Cypriot Presidency of the EU Council on Thursday.

In a report released today, Europol reported the existence of 731 criminal networks that pose a significant threat within the European Union, with organized groups increasingly resembling… Europol warning: Criminal networks are turning into “global businesses” - ΙΝΑΦΤΕΜΟΠΟΡΙΚΙ

Europol has just published the second edition of its report on the criminal networks most threatening to the internal security of the European Union, a category that the agency designates as MTCN. Of the 821 groups identified in 2024, more than three quarters have disappeared from the list, but 533 new networks have emerged in the meantime.

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