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The Court of Justice of the European Union has brought an end to an eight-year legal battle. It has upheld the €4.125 billion fine imposed on Google for abusing its dominant position with Android. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Google has been definitively ordered to pay €4.1bn by the CJEU

The Court of Justice of the European Union has brought an end to an eight-year legal battle. It has upheld the €4.125bn fine imposed on Google for abusing its dominant position with Android.

Ioanna Schimizzi • 02.07.2026

The funds raised through private bonds have never been invested in solar panel installations. The Swiss scandal has taken on a Luxembourg dimension following the hearing on 9 June in Switzerland of the three individuals who are in prison but presumed innocent. (Photo: Shutterstock)

PrimeEnergy: the Swiss scandal with repercussions in Luxembourg

Thierry Labro • 18.06.2026

The government wishes to step up the crackdown on illegal gaming machines, which are regarded as a potential conduit for money laundering and organised crime. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Illegal gambling: the Council of State puts the brakes on the reform

Marc Fassone • 18.06.2026

The government remains extremely cautious on the issue of recovered assets. No figures have been disclosed. (Photo: Paperjam/archives)

Caritas: two years on, the hunt for the €61m continues

Ioanna Schimizzi • 17.06.2026

According to Italian investigators, 40-year-old Clarissa La Porta is alleged to have played an active role in a transnational criminal organisation involved in fraud and money-laundering operations. (Photo: Facebook)

Key figure in Caritas case arrested in Rome

Thierry Labro • 08.06.2026

Sophie Schram and Enrico Lunghi, during the interview at Mudam. Photo: Screenshot RTL/archives

The Lunghi case ends with an acquittal

Thierry Labro • 03.06.2026

According to the prosecutor, the ministry’s reports were based on two medical expert reports that the prosecutor described as independent. Photo: Paperjam

Prosecutor opens inquiry into Wilmes surgery case

Mike Gordon • 28.05.2026

Bill 8750, which would allow access, subject to certain conditions, to the personal data of directors and officers of companies in bankruptcy, is being sponsored by the Minister for Justice, Elisabeth Margue. (Photo: Paperjam/Archives)

Easier access to data for insolvency practitioners

Marc Fassone • 18.05.2026

The real issue is no longer merely economic: it is democratic. Even more so than social media and search engines, AI can determine who sees what, thereby destroying the pluralism of information in Europe in favour of a sanitised and monolithic view. (Photo: Paperjam)

Publishers have won a battle, but the war is still to be fought

Thierry Labro • 15.05.2026

On Wednesday 6 May, the ministry of justice launched a dedicated portal aimed at combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism. (Photos: Shutterstock, screenshot of amlcft.public.lu. Montage: Paperjam)

Luxembourg is stepping up its online anti-money laundering measures

Ioanna Schimizzi • 07.05.2026

A suspect, who was arrested a few weeks ago in France and extradited to Luxembourg on 27 April, sheds light on the inner workings of a scheme that has already cost Luxembourg more than €10m. (Photo: Shutterstock)

The “LuxTrust fraud” network reveals its perpetrators

Ioanna Schimizzi • 06.05.2026

Ten years after the European Commission’s decision, the Dutch courts have estimated the additional costs incurred by the affected companies at 7%, paving the way for compensation. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Truck cartel: Dutch court quantifies the damages

Thierry Labro • 28.04.2026

He wanted to study medicine. Belgium wouldn’t let him study medicine. So he switched to law… only to find himself defending his own case before the Court of Justice of the European Union, wearing a borrowed lawyer’s gown for a 25-minute hearing: to convince the judges. (Photo: Axel Dris)

The Luxembourg student who is throwing Belgium’s quotas into disarray

Thierry Labro • 20.04.2026

Behind the romanticised image of the hacker – capable of disrupting government services or businesses through denial-of-service attacks – lies a cybercrime economy. In an operation carried out in Luxembourg as well, Europol has issued warnings to 75,000 individuals. Photo: Shutterstock

DDoS-for-hire: 75,000 “amateur hackers” identified

Thierry Labro • 16.04.2026

According to the Advocate General of the CJEU, the residence criterion is considered too rigid, particularly in cases such as that of Axel Dris, who attended school in Belgium throughout his education and has developed genuine ties there. (Photo: Shutterstock)

The CJEU rules in favour of a student from Luxembourg

Ioanna Schimizzi • 16.04.2026

According to his Paris-based lawyer, Mikhail Fridman, the co-founder of the Alfa Group, who is known to be close to the Russian authorities, took all the necessary formal steps by divesting his holdings in the group in order to have his name removed from the sanctions list. To no avail. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Mikhail Fridman: partial withdrawal, ongoing confusion

Thierry Labro • 16.04.2026

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