Category: Cross Border Crime
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Smuggling
Romanian Border Guards seize over 54,000 cigarettes found hidden in the doors, floor, seats and walls of a minibus
Border guards from the Nădlac Border Police Sector carried out random and unsystematic checks on the communication routes near the border.... Read More
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Smuggling
Weather balloons with illegal shipment
Officers from the Polish Border Guard post in Kuźnica, Lipsk commune, discovered two packages wrapped in black foil, along... Read More
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Smuggling
Romanian Border Guards seize cigarettes worth 6.7 million lei discovered in a truck
Border police officers from the Nădlac Border Police Sector carried out random and unsystematic checks on the communication routes near the... Read More
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Organised Crime
Coordinated strike hits violent criminal network behind large-scale illegal gambling and money laundering in Sweden
A coordinated law enforcement operation carried out in Sweden and Spain between 28 and 29 November targeted a violent... Read More
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Weapons
International Customs crackdown stops tonnes of dual-use materials bound for illicit IED manufacture
During the four-week operation, 93 Customs administrations carried out intensified border checks, resulting in 475 seizures under Operation GLOBAL...
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Criminals producing devices that unlock cars arrested in international operation
Five suspects were arrested during an international operation targeting a network of car thieves. The group manufactured reprogrammed speakers... Read More
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Smuggling
First-of-its-kind global Customs operation uncovers dual threat of illicit trafficking of nuclear and other radioactive material
The World Customs Organization (WCO) demonstrated the important role Customs play in protecting society from the illicit movement of... Read More
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Document fraud – Over 100 false or forged documents discovered by border police at Otopeni Airport, Romania
In the first nine months of 2025, Romanian border police detected 789 crimes of forgery and use of forgery, in... Read More
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Frontex rolls out fully-fledged operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, is launching its first full operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, starting... Read More
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Drugs
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Terrorism
INTERPOL border security operation yields record arrests, vital information on terrorist travel
Mediterranean counter-terror operation targeted air, sea and land borders 328 individuals subject to INTERPOL Notices and Diffusions, including 57...
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