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Police Bust Major Online Pedophile Ring in Europe

By Mara GayMar 16th 2011 – 12:55PM

Police in Europe have arrested more than a hundred people in what officials are calling the largest online child-sex ring ever discovered. At least 230 children, some as young as 7 years old, were rescued from sexual abuse, officials at the European police agency Europol said today. Europol Director Rob Wainwright said...

Cap-and-Trade Model Loses Billions to Fraud

By James GraffDec 10th 2009 – 7:44PM
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(Dec. 10) -- As negotiators grapple in Copenhagen over a global scheme to curtail carbon emissions, Europe's own iteration was revealed as an easy mark for organized crime. The development could lend fresh ammunition to congressional critics of the Obama administration's plans to limit carbon emissions through a...

Background on europol

Europol (short for European Police Office) is the European Union's criminal intelligence agency. It became fully operational on 1 July 1999.

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