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With raids in the Netherlands and six other EU countries, the police took down a “violent Balkan criminal cell” involved in drug and firearm trafficking on Wednesday, Europol reported. The police arrested 37 suspects, including the alleged ringleader of this criminal gang.
An unprecedented international operation, involving judicial and law enforcement authorities from 11 countries, has resulted in the arrest of 44 individuals. The arrested individuals were suspected of belonging to a high-risk criminal network considered one of the most dangerous in the European Union. The investigations in eight countries uncovered that several criminal organisations were working together to carry out large-scale poly-criminal activities in and outside the European Union. These include drug trafficking, money laundering and illegal enrichment among others.