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Since February, Ivanka Kotorova holds the position of National Member for Bulgaria at Eurojust. Prior to this position, Ms Kotorova served as Deputy National Member for Bulgaria at Eurojust. Before joining Eurojust, Ms Kotorova held various regional, district, and cassation posts as a public …

This March, Samantha Shallow took up her position as National Member for the United Kingdom at Eurojust.In her longstanding professional career, Ms Shallow held several positions. One of them was in the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), including its International Justice and Organised Crime Division, …

On 28 March 2018, after a two-year cybercrime investigation, 20 suspects were arrested for banking fraud that netted €1 million from hundreds of customers of two major banking institutions. The spear phishing e-mails were used by a Romanian and Italian organised criminal group to …

In 2017, for the first time, more than one million SIENA messages were exchanged among Europol, Member States and third parties.SIENA is the Secure Information Exchange Network Application, managed by Europol which enables a swift and secure communication and exchange of operational and …

At the beginning of February, Europol, Thomson Reuters and the World Economic Forum launched a new public/private coalition with the aim to mobilise and influence decisions-makers at the highest levels in the fight against financial crime and modern slavery. In particularly, the coalition wants …

On 16 February 2018, Europol signed a strategic partnership on financial investigations with the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD).Through the partnership, the level of information exchange between the two agencies will be increased:Cooperation;Mutual assistance;Expertise and knowledge sharing.Furthermore, …

From October to early December 2017, a first-time global customs-police operation, codenamed ATHENA, took place to counter the illicit trafficking of cultural objects, theft, and looting as well as internet sales.The results were as follows:Over 41,000 cultural goods, e.g., coins, paintings, drawings, …

At the end of February 2018, Europol uploaded 25 new objects to its Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object webpage (see eucrim 2/2017, p. 61)Since publication of the website in May 2017, Europol has received more than 18.300 tips from …

Under the supervision of the General Prosecutor’s Office (DIICOT), together with Bitdefender and Europol, the Romanian Police (IGPR) developed a decryption tool for victims of GrandCrab ransomware. The tool is available free of charge from www.nomoreransom.org.GrandCrab encrypts files on a victim’s computer. …

On 8 March 2017, Catherine de Bolle was appointed new Executive Director of Europol by the European Council.Catherine de Bolle currently holds the position of Commissioner General of the Belgian Federal Police. Her term at Europol will begin on 1 May 2018 when the …