Tag: Europol

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  Major blow to billion-euro glass eel trafficking networks

  October 1, 2025

  Europol: Organised crime at the heart of trafficking – The latest iteration of Operation LAKE, which ran from October 2024 to June 2025, uncovered large-scale trafficking networks and disrupted the flow of live eels destined for illegal farms in Asia.

  TAGS: Animal Trafficking, Canada, DG SANTE, eels, EFCA, Enforcement, EU, Europol, Fish Crime, Fisheries Crime, France, Glass Eeels, OLAF, organised crime, Switzerland, UK, United Kingdom, United States, Wildlife Crime

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  Europol Report: “The DNA of organised crime is changing – and so is the threat to Europe”

  March 23, 2025

  A new Europol report highlights how money is being made illegally from the trafficking of pets, wildlife, endangered species, horses, glass eels, bluefin tuna, molluscs and how the growth in waste and pollution crime is one of the 7 fastest-growing criminal threats.

  TAGS: Animal Crime, Bluefin Tuna, Corruption, Crime Networks, Endangered Species, Environmental Crime, EU, EU-SOCTA, European Union, Europol, Fraud, glass eels, Horses, Molluscs, Money Laundering, organised crime, Pets, Pollution Crime, Waste Crime, Wildlife

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  30 tonnes of illegally-fished, contaminated molluscs seized ahead of Christmas

  December 22, 2024

  Europol-supported action led to the arrest of 62 in France, Portugal and Spain.

  TAGS: Crime, eels, EMPACT, Enforcement, Environmental Crime, EU, Europol, Fish, France, glass eels, investigation, mollucs, organised crime, police, Portugal, Spain