Credit: Shutterstock / Beware of pickpocketers! DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF Professional international pickpocketing teams have had their sticky hands in a lot of unsuspecting victims’ purses and pockets in most of the major cities of the world. It is a growing menace all the more because
Credit: Europol.europa.eu / Italian Carabinieri arrests 32 with links to Italian mafia in Sicily DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF In the early hours of Monday 4 March, the Italian Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (Anti-mafia Investigation Department) and the Italian Carabinieri arrested 32 individuals, allegedly members of the Italian
Credit: Europol / Bandits reportedly counterfeited at least 11,000 bottles of red wine before getting busted. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The criminals dabbled in fraud by the glass until the authorities caught up with them. Europol supported a police action day coordinated by the Italian
Credit: Europol / Some €167,000 (£151,000) in cash was seized by police officers in operation in Spain By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Spanish authorities dismantled an organised crime group in Spain involved in manipulating professional tennis matches. The gang operation was dismantled in an police
Credit: EUROPOL / The organised criminal gang targeted luxurious cars in Germany and then sold them outside of the EU. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES A joint anti-organised crime operation by Europol and Eurojust led to the arrest last week of 12 Lithuanians suspected of
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Nine members of a criminal migrant network have been arrested in a joint operation carried out by Spain and France, EUROPOL, announced. The investigation revealed that around 1,200 migrants were smuggled by plane from Palestine to Northern Europe through Spain
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The French Judicial Police (DCPJ) and the Italian Carabinieri Corps, with support from Europol and Eurojust, arrested 23 individuals and dismantled 2 criminal networks suspected of producing and distributing counterfeit banknotes in France and Italy. The networks produced various