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Investigators from 28 nations jointly traced assets linked to dozens of drug traffickers and other organized criminals this month as part of a project led by Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency. Under the initiative, Project A.S.S.E.T., which stands for Asset Search & Seize Enforcement Taskforce, 80 financial investigators from national authorities in the EU, the U.S., Albania and other countries sat in the same room and exchanged criminal intelligence and information gleaned from land registries and other databases over a four-day period. Burkhard Mühl, head of Europol's European Financial and Economic Crime Centre, which helps coordinate investigations into the...