The Chairman of the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee of Inquiry, Dutch MEP Jeroen Lenaers (EPP), wrote to Europol’s Executive Director Catherine de Bolle on Monday 3 October asking her to use the Agency’s new prerogatives to assist Member States in criminal investigations and to suggest an investigation into a specific crime, the PEGA Committee announced on Twitter.
While the new Regulation 2022/991 of the Agency provides that this possibility to suggest an investigation - which...