Tag: organised crime
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INTERPOL: 30,000 live animals seized in global operation against wildlife and forestry crime
INTERPOL: Nearly 30,000 live animals seized during the one-month global operation (Warning – Distressing Content) #OrganisedCrime #WildlifeCrime #INTERPOL
TAGS: Angola, Australia, birds, Brazil, Butterflies, Cameroon, Canada, Cats, Cuscus, eggs, Enforcement, Environmental Crime, Gecko, Gibbon, gorilla, Hippo, Hornbills, ICCWC, Illegal Hunting, Interpol, ivory, llama, Macaws, Monkeys, Operation Thunder, organised crime, Philippines, Plants, police, Primates, Qatar, reptiles, Rhino, Shark Fin, Snake, snow leopard, Spiders, Tanzania, Tarantula, tiger, Toucan, Turtles, WCO, Wildlife -
Major blow to billion-euro glass eel trafficking networks
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.
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Podcast: Impacts of the Illegal Wildlife Trade (UKFIU)
A 2 part podcast from the UK Financial Intelligence Unit on wildlife crime
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Europol Report: “The DNA of organised crime is changing – and so is the threat to Europe”
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.
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30 tonnes of illegally-fished, contaminated molluscs seized ahead of Christmas
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 -
Launch of the third World Wildlife Crime Report: Trafficking in Protected Species
The third edition of the World Wildlife Crime Report, probes trends in the illicit trafficking of protected wildlife species. It presents systematic analyses of wildlife crime harms and impacts, probes the factors driving wildlife trafficking trends, and takes stock of current knowledge about the effectiveness of the different types of intervention being pursued to resolve…