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  Follow the money: cocaine trafficking network exposed through its financial trail

  Europol

  February 26, 2026

  An international criminal network laundering cocaine profits for Italian organised crime has been dismantled after investigators followed the money trail across Europe. What began as suspicious financial movements uncovered a sophisticated laundering system servicing members of the Camorra and the 'Ndrangheta. Behind shell companies, false invoicing and luxury investments, millions of euros in cocaine profits were being cleaned and reinvested across Europe.

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  College of the EPPO decision concerning the disciplinary procedure against the Bulgarian European Prosecutor

  European Public Prosecutor's Office

  February 26, 2026

  Today, the College of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) found the Bulgarian European Prosecutor guilty of serious misconduct, as detailed in the opinion of the Disciplinary Board, composed of high-ranking officials, or former officials, of the European institutions. Moreover, the College of the EPPO deferred its decision on the appropriate sanction as, considering the seriousness of the established breaches, and the high degree of responsibility of the function of European Prosecutor, it cannot be excluded that the sanction may be the dismissal of the European Prosecutor.

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  3,354 individuals prosecuted in Europol-coordinated hit against pharmaceutical crime networks

  Europol

  February 25, 2026

  Between April and November 2025, law enforcement, judicial, customs, medical and anti-doping authorities from 30 countries joined forces in Operation SHIELD VI. Europol coordinated this global effort targeting the trafficking of counterfeit and misused medicines, as well as illicit doping substances and food supplements. As in the previous operations, the 2025 edition was supported by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), Frontex, INTERPOL, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and national medicine agencies.