Belgium is fast becoming a smuggler’s paradise for illegal cigarettes, with a third of all cigarettes puffed in the country ...

Police in the northeast and northwest of the country say they have received six separate complaints so far this year – and they fear there are others who have yet to come forward ...

BRUSSELS, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A 19-year-old man was shot dead in Brussels on Saturday night, the local prosecutor's office said, as drug gang violence in the Belgian capital shows no signs of abating.

The gang is also accused of helping migrants who had their asylum claims rejected in Belgium to travel to the UK on small boats. Three of the men appeared at London's Westminster Magistrates ...

Authorities have linked most of the gunfire to drug trafficking and disputes between gangs attempting to gain territory ... Police are still looking for the perpetrator. On Monday, Belgium’s Interior ...

Belgium's national drugs commissioner has issued an urgent plea for her country to "act now" to crack down on the revenues of traffickers or risk seeing crime syndicates corrode society.

Belgian prosecutors say the men arrested were ... and we currently have 70 live investigations into the gangs involved in it NCA deputy director Craig Turner Three appeared at Westminster ...

The agency said migrants who had their asylum claims rejected in Belgium would be moved to the UK on small boats by the gang, who are suspected of transporting "significant numbers" in this way.