After a blow against Darknet crime with 150 arrests, Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Boris Pistorius has spoken out in favor of more competencies for Europol.
He is committed to equipping the European police authority "with significantly more resources and competencies," said the SPD politician on Wednesday.
“We have a lot of catching up to do in Europe.
Hanover - Criminals are networking more and more on digital platforms and are acting more and more digitally. ”In the medium term, Europol must be given executive powers.
"I've been calling for a kind of European FBIs to be set up for a long time."
The day before it became known that international investigators had managed to strike against crime in the so-called Darknet.
They arrested around 150 suspects - 47 in Germany alone.
More than 26 million euros were seized, as well as 234 kilograms of drugs and 45 firearms.
Some of the suspects have been classified as "high level targets" by Europol.
It was not the first action against the Darknet - in January 2021, investigators unearthed one of the world's largest illegal marketplaces on the Darknet, the “DarkMarket” platform.
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The new “Dark HunTOR” campaign, coordinated by Europol, spanned nine countries in Europe and the USA.
"This case shows how important the transnational and international work of the law enforcement authorities is," emphasized Pistorius.
The State Criminal Police Office (LKA) Lower Saxony and the Central Criminal Inspectorate Oldenburg were involved in the campaign.
“We do not allow criminals to use the darkest corners of the Darknet to conduct their illegal business there.
We do not accept legal vacancies, not even in the digital world ”, underlined the minister.
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