Jun 1, 2026 · 34 min · 5 segments
Money laundering, fraud and scams, and the people behind it, don’t recognise international boarders. So tackling these sophisticated international criminal networks requires law enforcement to rely on…
Thomas KaplanGuest
Jean-Philippe LecouffeGuestDee ReddyHostPaul O'DonoghueOur task is to support all the investigation, cross-border investigations of, uh, all the law enforcement agency throughout the EU.
Supporting means bringing in three main domain: fighting organized crime, fighting cybercrime, fighting terrorism.
We are a small agency compared in numbers, but we have highly expert people.
We have experts in drugs trafficking, in cocaine, in cannabis, in synthetic drugs.
They are experts because we recruit them from the member states where they are already experts, and they increase their expertise by working in Europol at a global level.
So how does an organization work on a more granular level? You know, how are the teams working with local law enforcement?
And our business model, I would say, is to support the investigation of the member states.
We have, and this is important because this is linked to the, the treaty and the functioning of the EU and the sovereignty issue, we don't have any executive power, that is to say coercive power.
That is to say we don't do arrest, we don't do searches, we don't do, uh, interviews, and so on.
They know they have their legal framework, the national legal framework working, and the, the judicial system and so on.
Our task is to support all the investigation, cross-border investigations of, uh, all the law enforcement agency throughout the EU.
Supporting means bringing in three main domain: fighting organized crime, fighting cybercrime, fighting terrorism.
We are a small agency compared in numbers, but we have highly expert people.
We have experts in drugs trafficking, in cocaine, in cannabis, in synthetic drugs.
They are experts because we recruit them from the member states where they are already experts, and they increase their expertise by working in Europol at a global level.
So how does an organization work on a more granular level? You know, how are the teams working with local law enforcement?
And our business model, I would say, is to support the investigation of the member states.
We have, and this is important because this is linked to the, the treaty and the functioning of the EU and the sovereignty issue, we don't have any executive power, that is to say coercive power.
That is to say we don't do arrest, we don't do searches, we don't do, uh, interviews, and so on.
They know they have their legal framework, the national legal framework working, and the, the judicial system and so on.
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