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Operation Endgame

# Organizations and roles

May 2024, Multi threat campaign
[Operation Endgame wave 1](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/operation-endgame-wave-1)

Last reviewed August 21, 2026

The public record puts 5 organizations on this action. Operational lead: French Gendarmerie, BKA, and Dutch National Police. The table lists the role the cited record assigns each one, in the record's own wording where it gives any.

## Why this page names organizations only

Roles on this page describe the agencies that took part. Individuals named in the public record appear on the takedown entry itself, under People and accountability.

## Organizations and roles

| Emblem | Organization | Role | What the record says |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | [Bundeskriminalamt](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/bundeskriminalamt), Germany | Co-lead | One of three initiating national authorities; published the wanted list of remaining suspects. |
| | [Gendarmerie nationale](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/gendarmerie-nationale), France | Co-lead | One of three initiating national authorities. |
| | [Politie (Netherlands National Police)](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/politie-netherlands-national-police), Netherlands | Co-lead | One of three initiating national authorities. |
| | [European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/european-union-agency-for-law-enforcement-cooperation) | Coordinator | Coordinated the operation and hosted the command post. |
| | [European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/european-union-agency-for-criminal-justice-cooperation) | Judicial cooperation | Coordinated judicial cooperation. |

## Accountability

### Legal authority

National judicial orders in France, Germany, and the Netherlands; European Arrest Warrants; Europol and Eurojust coordination

### Oversight

The record assigns prosecuting or judicial roles to Eurojust.

### Ongoing investigation

Group accounted for: Members remain at large. German authorities explicitly published a wanted list of suspects who remained at large after the action, establishing remaining members by official statement.

This page records organizational involvement as the cited sources state it. Where a role carries no description, the record gives none.

Last reviewed August 21, 2026