All news on the topic: Organised Crime

A new Europol report reveals that criminal gangs in Europe are increasingly turning to violent, direct force to breach museums as they target precious metals and jewels that can be easily liquidated.

Hordes of balaclava-clad youths lit flares and set off balloons in a "vigil" for the dead A66 "joyriders" - just as mourners silently prayed for the two PCs killed in the same crash.

Twelve people aged 19 to 61 have been arrested in a probe following the fatal crash on the A66.

A group of thieves were caught by police as they tried to tunnel their way into a jewellery shop after an investigation linked them to a spate of burglaries worth more than £700,000.

Indonesian authorities have seized 2.6 metric tons of liquid methamphetamine hidden aboard a Tanzanian-flagged vessel in one of the country’s largest drug busts, the National Narcotics Agency announced Tuesday, according to state news agency Antara.

A £50,000 Rolex stolen within an hour of leaving a London shop. Gangs scouting victims outside hotels, restaurants and luxury stores. Watches worth hundreds of thousands of pounds ripped from wrists in holiday resorts. LBC investigates the organised trade in stolen timepieces, and why many victims never tell the police.

In the trial of business magnate Yorgen Fenech, a middleman’s secret recordings and auto-deleting texts exposed the chilling mechanics behind the 2017 car bombing—and the political leaks that shielded the killers.

Airbnb-type short-term rentals are being used as stash houses by criminal gangs for money, drugs, weapons and people, Belgium’s lead official in charge of countering drugs has said.

Border Force officers intercepted an almost 3-tonne shipment of banana boxes hiding £200,000,000 worth of cocaine.

The extradition of Daniel Kinahan was the most tracked flight in the world as it approached Ireland on Sunday.

Daniel Kinahan has returned to Ireland for the first time in 10 years — but his accommodation will not be as luxurious as what it was in Dubai.

With its neat garden and tightly closed blinds, the small terraced house on the windswept north-west peninsula of the Wirral looks unremarkable.

An alleged gang figure, Daniel Kinahan, was charged and sent to jail after his extradition from Dubai on an Irish government.

Some £4 million in cash and a kilo of cocaine have been found stuffed inside shopping bags in south London.

A specialist British law enforcement team has put 108 organized crime figures behind bars for a combined 851 years and seized drugs worth up to $93.6 million since 2021, the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced.

A teenage hitman who flew into the UK from Norway to murder a stranger on behalf of one of Europe’s most dangerous crime gangs is facing a life sentence.

More than 33 million illicit cigarettes have been confiscated from retail outlets across the UK over the past year, Trading Standards has revealed.

Polish prosecutors have formally requested the temporary arrest and extradition of former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro from the U.S. so he could face criminal charges over alleged abuse of power and mismanagement of public funds.

Prosecutors in Georgia have charged four foreign nationals and five companies with operating a transnational money-laundering scheme that funneled 21.5 million Georgian lari ($8.2 million) in illicit proceeds through the country’s financial system.

In Thailand, Russian national Viktor Alekseenkov, a leader of a major organised crime group from Primorye, has been detained at Russia’s request.

A Montenegrin court handed down a 40-year prison sentence in absentia and steep financial penalties to the fugitive leader of the notorious Kavač criminal clan for aggravated murder and other charges.

Following a secretive trial, Andria Liluashvili was sentenced to 12 years in prison and stripped of $13 million in luxury assets for funneling monthly kickbacks from fraudulent call centers to his relative, the former head of Georgia’s State Security Service.

The UK has been warned the country risks becoming a hub for illegal drugs after a string of cocaine busts more than 3,000 miles away.

As scammers and terrorists increasingly turn to crypto, a Canadian intelligence office is raising alarms about risks posed by an emerging industry offering discreet means to convert cryptocurrency to large sums of physical cash and vice versa.