Scottish health and safety enforcement

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Acknowledging the importance of Scottish corporate crime practice to our customers, we are developing a set of content on Scottish corporate crime law for Scottish practitioners. The content provides an essential resource for Scottish practitioners while the guidance will also assist practitioners in England and Wales dealing with cross-border criminal investigations where it is necessary to have an understanding of health and safety enforcement in Scotland.

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In 2024, Eurojust, the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, supported several significant cross-border investigations targeting various forms of organised crime. Notable operations included the dismantling of a EUR 2 billion money laundering network in February 2024, involving Italian, Latvian, and Lithuanian authorities. In November, a sophisticated fake art operation was uncovered, potentially averting losses of EUR 200 million, with 38 arrests made and over 2,000 forged artworks seized. Other successful interventions included the takedown of online infrastructure used for terrorist propaganda, a large-scale anti-mafia operation resulting in asset freezes worth EUR 50 million, and the issuance of arrest warrants for three Belarusian officials involved in a forced plane landing. Eurojust's coordination efforts also contributed to halting malware attacks that threatened millions of users globally.

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