News Briefing – Week of 23 March

Cocaine, Colombia, Ecstasy, Ghana, Heroin, Honduras, Latin America, Mexico, Money laundering, Newsbriefings, Precursors, Trafficking, Venezuela, West Africa

  Several prisoners escaped from four Brazilian prisons after authorities announced the suspension of the one-day release programme. This decision was taken as a preventive measure to avoid the spread of the Coronavirus, COVID-19.   Honduras is becoming a cocaine producing country in addition to being a transit country.  Reporting indicates that, between 2009 and 2020,  12…

News Briefing – Week of 9 March

Cocaine, Cooperation, Corruption, Heroin, Illegal logging, Newsbriefings, Turkey, Wastewater analysis

  Turkish authorities announced that 2384kgs of heroin have been seized as a result of international operational cooperation with five countries and EUROPOL. The seizures are the result of an investigation that followed a seizure of 300kgs of heroin in Genoa, Italy, back in 2018. The biggest seizure of 1105kgs was made in Kazakhstan, 703kgs in Germany, 350kgs…

News Briefing – Week of 2 March

Fake medicine, Methamphetamines, Newsbriefings, Trafficking

Three laboratories that produced large quantities of yaba pills (metamphetamines), heroin and Ice were dismantled by the army of Myanmar. The laboratories were located in the heart of the Southeast Asian Golden Triangle. Several European countries, together with EUROPOL, participated in an operation led by France and Finland against criminal groups trafficking online and offline in misused and counterfeit medicines.…

The Global Illicit Flows Programme well represented at the 63rd CND in Vienna!

Convention on Narcotic Drugs, CORMS, CRIMJUST, ENACT, EU-ACT, News

The first week of March 2020 saw over 1000 participants consisting of government officials, representatives of international and regional organisations, civil society organisations and experts in the field of drug policy gather at the Vienna International Conference Center under the framework of the UNODC 63rd Convention on Narcotic Drugs (CND). The CND provides a unique…

News Briefing – Week of 24 February

Cape Verde, Cocaine, Cooperation, Mexico, Newsbriefings

  Several suspects of Montenegrin nationality are currently detained in Aruba. They were arrested following the interception of the vessel “Arresa” in which five tonnes of cocaine was discovered onboard. This seizure was the result of an operation led by the Netherlands and Colombia and involved several months of investigation that included Serbian, British and Montenegrin…