Law enforcement in Europe

Arrests have been made in Bulgaria, Israel and Spain in a cross-border bust of a large criminal network involved in investment fraud and money laundering, European police agency Europol said on May 12.

The fraud scheme, organised mainly by Israeli nationals, included call centres, was run from Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia.

The Bulgarian Health Minister Thursday issued an order with new rules for entry in Bulgaria from May 1.

Brussels – European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson will start a two-day visit to Slovenia on Thursday to discuss the country’s EU presidency preparations. She intends to raise the issue of media freedom and pluralism as well. Slovenia should not underestimate the risk to its international reputation when it comes to this, Johansson has told the STA.

Ljubljana – Toughened restrictions on Slovenia’s borders entered into effect Monday in advance of an eleven-day circuit-breaker lockdown. There are fewer exemptions and the testing requirement has been stepped up.

Ljubljana – Any gatherings are banned in the coastal Obalno-Kraška region from Saturday and travel between this region and others is restricted to work- and health-related reasons, the government decreed at Thursday’s correspondence session. The current level of restrictions remains in force in the rest of the country.

Germany is extending strict checks on its borders with the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol province until March 3.

Fourteen years later, in September 2020, the police came knocking, arresting 20 suspects in coordinated raids in 10 countries in Europe and the Middle East to dismantle the Albanian crime syndicate, 'Kompania Bello'.

Greece is one step closer to implementing a 35-million-euro program that will bring it in line with the European Union's Entry/Exit System (EES) for registering the biometric data of third-country nationals crossing into or out of the Schengen Area.

Cyprus is tightening measures for people arriving at airports from other countries, imposing a 72-hour self-quarantine and a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test within 72 hours after that, the Health Ministry announced.

It said the measures will come into force tomorrow and will apply for people arriving from low-risk category A and B countries.

Ljubljana – The government amended the rules for entry into Slovenia last night to scrap some of the exceptions for entering the country without the quarantine requirement or a negative coronavirus test.