Category: Regions

Regulatory Watch News

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  People smuggler who organised Mediterranean crossings on ‘death trap’ boats threatened to throw migrants in the sea

  National Crime Agency

  May 20, 2025

  A man arrested by the National Crime Agency for masterminding the smuggling of thousands of people across the Mediterranean from north Africa into Europe has been jailed for 25 years. 42-year-old Egyptian national Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Ebid was detained in Hounslow, west London, in June 2023. Working with law enforcement partners in Italy, the NCA were able to link him to a number of illegal crossings from Libya.

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  100 sanctioned under the Russia Sanctions Regime

  UK Government

  May 20, 2025

  Today, 20 May, the UK Government has sanctioned 20 individuals, 62 entities, and 18 ships under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. This package targets Russian revenue generating sectors, including energy, communications and financial services, the Russian military industrial complex (RMIC) and its third country suppliers, and malign actors involved in democratic interference and Russia’s information war on Ukraine. Click here for further details.

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  Greece: EPPO probes OPEKEPE officials over alleged organised agricultural subsidy fraud and corruption

  European Public Prosecutor's Office

  May 20, 2025

  (Luxembourg, 20 May 2025) – Since yesterday until early hours this morning, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Athens (Greece) has led searches as part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged organised fraud scheme involving agricultural funds and corruption involving public officials of the Greek Payment and Control Agency for Guidance and Guarantee Community Aids (OPEKEPE).