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No. 7 · Tuesday, 7 July 2026

Global human-trafficking sweep nets 1,024 arrests, more than 2,000 victims identified

Transnational Organized CrimeARRESTAustriaRomania
What?  A 59-country operation across five continents, coordinated by Europol and Interpol and co-led by Austria and Romania with command centers in Skopje and Rio de Janeiro, produced 1,024 arrests — 334 specifically for trafficking, the rest for related offenses — and identified more than 2,070 trafficking victims from 45 countries, opening 465 new investigations and uncovering roughly 80 document-fraud cases tied to sexual exploitation, forced criminality, and forced-begging networks.
Sources: Europol · Interpol (6 July 2026)

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