The police, coordinated by the Catania Public Prosecutor’s Office, carried out Operation Takendown, dismantling the most widespread transnational criminal organisation that illegally served over 22 million users.
Over 270 postal police officers carried out 89 searches in 15 Italian regions and, with the collaboration of foreign police forces, 14 searches in the United Kingdom, Holland, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania and Croatia, against 102 people.
The Croatian police executed precautionary custody orders against 11 people under investigation.
As part of the police operation, over 2500 illegal channels and servers were seized that managed the majority of illicit signals in Europe.
These channels and servers brought in over 250 million euros per month.
The operation was planned by the international judicial authorities Eurojust and Europol.
It was operationally coordinated by the Postal Police Service and financed by the European Commission and led by the DIA, the national anti-mafia investigative directorate.
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