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This year’s 11th Global Airport Action Days (GAAD) took place from 18 to 22 June 2018, resulting in arrests of more than 140 people in 61 countries.

At the end of April 2018, the first Joint Investigation Team (JIT) ever established between France and Greece resulted in the arrest of four leaders of the Georgian mafia organisation “Vory V zakone.”

In May 2018, for the first time in their history, France and Italy as well as Italy and Poland signed agreements to form Joint Investigation Teams to cooperate in transnational cases.

On 1 July 2018, Eurojust and Europol signed a Memorandum of Understanding to ensure closer cooperation with regard to the funding of JITs. With the MoU, rules and conditions for the benefit of those requesting funding from the national authorities are established.

On 18 August 2018, the first Liaison Prosecutor for the Ukraine, Ms Myroslava Krasnoborova, took up office at Eurojust.

Eurojust published its annual report for the year 2017 and infographics on Eurojust at work and Eurojust’s operations in 2017.

On 19 June 2018, the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council, the European Parliament, and the European Commission agreed on the new Eurojust Regulation. The EU ambassadors confirmed the agreement on 20 June 2018.

On 5 and 12 May 2018, Europol’s “Eurosearch” project, which was set up to locate and capture dangerous mafia fugitives in Europe, succeeded in the arrest of two of the most important Italian fugitives and members of the Italian Crime Syndicate COSA NOSTRA.

On 24 April 2018, the world’s biggest marketplace by which to hire Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) services, webstresser.org, was shut down and its infrastructure seized.

At the beginning of May 2018, one of the largest European law enforcement operations ever resulted in the shut-down of an illegal online marketplace selling counterfeit goods and pirated content.