05/10/2016
Eurojust and Europol support major operation against illegal immigrant smuggling (European Union)
(Source: European Union) Joint Eurojust- Europol press release ?The Hague, 06 September 2016 Today, a major operation against an organised criminal group (OCG) involved in a widespread illegal immigrant smuggling network has successfully been concluded. Sixteen arrests have been made and others are ongoing. A large amount of assets, money and other goods were seized. Led by the Italian authorities, the case concentrated on a criminal syndicate composed of Syrian, Algerian, Egyptian, Lebanese and Tunisian suspects, who were involved in the illicit smuggling of migrants, mostly of Syrian origin, into the European Union. According to the evidence gathered so far, between 2014 and 2016, the...
