VAT fraud by the Calabrian mafia
There has been a lot of talk in recent months about dubious share deals in which transnationally operating networks with ...
In memory of Giovanni Falcone
On the 23rd of May 1992 Judge Giovanni Falcone was killed in the Capaci massacre together with his wife Francesca ...
Public prosecutor: ”You have to follow the money”
One of the biggest mafia trials in Germany recently took place in Constance, Baden-Württemberg. In an interview, Senior Public Prosecutor ...
Filippo Spiezia: ”The European Commission wants to cut Eurojust’s operational budget. It is unacceptable and against the EU values”
The vice-president of Eurojust speaks at the conference ”Mafias: a European Problem”, organised at the European Parliament. Brussels, 5 February ...
“The war between Montenegrin clans does not stop”. The case of Igor K. shakes German public opinion
The war between Montenegrin clans is once again attracting public attention in Germany. Igor K., a 35-year-old Montenegrin criminal, was ...
Mafias in Europe
It was 1962 when the American mathematician Edward Lorenz studied and elaborated the so-called “butterfly effect”, probably inspired by “A ...
Combating Money Laundering at a local level: the example of Amsterdam
On September 6, 2019 we participated in the conference on money laundering organized by ”Die Linke” at the Bundestag. On ...
Operation „Two Seas” – 11 tons of cocaine with an estimate worth of $3.3 billion seized
In the end of last month, the operation „Two Seas” came to a successful end exposing a multicontinental drug trafficking ...
European Week for the fight against organized crime 2015 in Brussels
The European Commission is developing into a major player on the fight against mafia and organized crime in Europe. Brussels’ ...