At the end of last month, SEACOP held its 2nd Maritime Intelligence Training for Argentinean officers in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷. Experts from the Colombian Navy, the Brazilian Federal Police and SEACOP’s Latin America Coordinator, Alfredo Diaz Sanchez, focused the activity on intelligence gathering in the maritime and river environment, analysed recently detected criminal patterns in…
03.04.23 – Money laundering couple caught smuggling criminal cash during lockdown. A husband and wife from Hertfordshire who tried to smuggle more than £200,000 out of the UK during the height of the Covid lockdown have been convicted of money laundering. Ardian Sharra, aged 51, and Valbona Laloshi, aged 41, from Tring were investigated by…
On March 31st, SEACOP organised a closing ceremony celebrating the end of the Joint Maritime Control Unit advanced training in Lomé, #Togo 🇹🇬 The training course, which benefited 16 participants from Togo’s police, customs and maritime affairs, sought to provide the agents of the Joint Maritime Control Unit with in-depth skills on vessels rummage to strengthen the…
On 3-4 April 2023, SEACOP held its Coordination Committee in Expertise France (EF) headquarters in Paris, France. The team, which came from West Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe, gathered to discuss the achievements of the past three months, as well as the upcoming activities to be carried out in the next few weeks. They were…
27.03.23 – Female Mexican drug Cartel assassins fight in new organised crime phenomenon. Female gangsters are the newest organised crime “phenomenon” gripping Mexico as women assassins are completing hits for drug cartels. Officials in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas have noticed more and more women becoming embroiled in the shady world of Mexican drug…
