🧐 Do you know what #EMPACT is and does ?
Check out this space to find out more about cooperation to fight organized and serious international crime and to protect people. 🇪🇺#StrongerTogether
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"EMPACT 2022" by @EUHomeAffairs
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🚨 #EMPACT, the EU flagship instrument to tackle organised and serious international crime.
Thanks to the cooperation between partners from the EU and beyond, the platform has been able to deliver excellent results ↓
@Europol#SecurityEU
📢 A large-scale coin forger suspected of producing 2 million fake EUR 2 coins has been arrested in Kosovo.
This 🇽🇰 and 🇲🇰 investigation has been supported by Eurojust, via the Western Balkans Criminal Justice Project (#WBCJ), and @Europol.
🔗 https://t.co/ixL0NxCbEh
🎯 #EMPACT targets the most serious crimes threatening EU citizens: complex, high-impact, cross-border criminal activities.
⚖️ Judicial involvement in these cases is essential to ensure that criminals are brought to justice.
2023 results 👇
https://t.co/86ywRfmN4F
🚨 566 arrests in week of coordinated actions in Southern Europe.
👮👮🏽 Authorities from 26 countries joined forces during the #EMPACT Joint Action Days.
The actions were supported by Europol, @Eurojust, @Frontex & @INTERPOL_HQ.
Press release ⤵️
https://t.co/F84566u5fM
↗️ Stepping up the fight against #OrganisedCrime:
During their meeting at #Eurojust, the Prosecutors General of the 🇪🇺 have discussed how an earlier involvement of judicial authorities & more ⚖️-👮 cooperation via #EMPACT can benefit joint actions.
👉 https://t.co/Rc6FNRe0bc
#EU synergies in action in the Caribbean and Latin America!
Inspectors Jefe Cristina Sanchez from #EMPACT delivers a presentation on EU initiatives to combat crime & trafficking at sea in SEACOP interregional meeting
🚨 End of the road for 6 suspects smuggling migrants from France to Portugal in rental cars.
🚘 The criminal group facilitated the illegal obtainment of 🇵🇹 residence permits for irregular migrants using fake documents.
Press release ⤵️
https://t.co/IsvzRIWnFr #EMPACT
🚩Detenido en #Marbella un fugitivo alemán por delitos graves contra las personas al que le constaba una Orden Europea de Detención y Entrega
🚩La investigación se ha llevado a cabo en el marco del #EMPACT cofinanciada por la #UE
https://t.co/7ZoxLUA6SI
🚨 21 arrested for labour exploitation and 261 victims identified.
Authorities target food and delivery services, beauty salons, and transport and construction sectors during EU-wide Joint Action Days.
Press release ⤵️
https://t.co/KpvL4bbzt8
#EMPACT
🚨 Syrian gang leader arrested with 14 other suspects in Spain.
The suspects arranged for the smuggling of at least 200 migrants rarely used migration route from Syria through Sudan or the United Arab Emirates.
Press release ⤵️
https://t.co/lzt1VYlIUr
#EMPACT
💡 On 5 July don't miss our #CEPOLwebinar aiming to:
-Promote the role of innovation in #EMPACT
-Raise awareness on 🇪🇺 security research & innovation supporting the fight against serious & #organisedcrime
-Facilitate connections between stakeholders
🔗https://t.co/Cnpzmkoz7j
🚨 28 arrests as France and Spain hit chief ‘Thief in Law’.
🔎 Joint investigation leads to arrest of leader of a ‘Thieves in Law’ network, despite criminal group’s strong measures to protect him from police & legal actions.
Press release ⤵️
https://t.co/ZujFgHz8zU
#EMPACT
Clothes, watches, shoes & other accessories infringing the rights of more than 60 TM and worth over
8️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣EUR, seized in operation #Pirates 1, part of #EMPACT JDA.
CELBET mission’s officers from 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇵🇱🇷🇴 actively participated in the detection and unloading the IPR goods
🚩Intervenidos 65 kilos de cocaína ocultos en un bidón de azúcar de caña en el Puerto de #Málaga
🔹 La droga, en paquetes rectangulares de un kilo cada uno, estaba oculta en un bidón de melaza de caña
3 detenidos
Operación en el marco #EMPACT#cofinanciadaUE con @FondosUEseg
#CocaineEurope | As cocaine crackdowns intensify in ports like Antwerp and Rotterdam, traffickers are seeking alternatives. The rising cocaine seizures in Sweden's Helsingborg port indicate it has become the newest addition to their list. https://t.co/h2mHuCMk4p
Our work contributes to the European multidisciplinary platform against criminal threats.
We are in the Hague today, taking part in #EMPACT Strategic Mtg, discussing 2023 Operation Action Plan together w/ EU and South East & East Europe partners, for a #SaferRegion, #SaferEurope