Eighty seizures of drugs and 70 people were arrested during an INTERPOL operation targeting drug trafficking routes from Latin America via Africa to Europe. The operation was realised in collaboration with AIRCOP JAITFs that were able to share information via INTERPOL’s system I-24/7 and CENcomm, WCO’s communication tool. Argentinian President Macri declared a one-year national…
The Nigerian civic group called the Civil Society Network against Corruption (CSNAC) submitted a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over a reported case of money laundering that would have involved the National Assembly between 2009 and 2015. According to the civil society, several members of the National Assembly repeatedly violated the…
Closing event of the AMERIPOL-EU event held in Bogota. Financed under the ICsP and part of the flagship Cocaine Route Programme, the projects objectives focused on strengthening the cooperation of law enforcement, judicial and prosecuting authorities in Latin America and the Caribbean. During a regional workshop on Risk Assessment on Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing…
Two French pilots who fled from Dominican Republic as accused of alleged cocaine trafficking, were arrested in France. Dominican Republic’s prosecutor general announced tht he had requested an international arrest warrant for the two pilots. UNODC and other stakeholders called the Federal Government of Niigeria to review its drug laws, focusing more on the rehabilitation…
According to the Coca Crop Monitoring Survey released by the UNODC, cocaine production in Bolivia declined by 11% in the past year, marking the fourth year in a row of steady decrease. The surface under coca cultivation in 2014 is the lowest since UNODC began its monitoring survey in 2003. Through the use of satellite…
The traditional Italy might soon wind up on the podium of liberalism, after 218 members of the Parliament from left and right wing parties have supported a proposal that would largely legalise production, distribution, sale and consumption of marijuana. Anyone over the age of 18 would be allowed to grow up to five marijuana plants…
Europol coordinated an operation against a Nigerian drug trafficking gang with police forces in the Czech Republic, Spain, Germany, Austria, and Sweden. The operation led to the arrest of 10 people and to the seizure of significant amounts of cocaine throughout Europe. The Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) will soon…
Alhaji Sule Lamido, former Governor of Jigawa State in Nigeria, was arrested in Abuja for alleged money laundering. In November 2014, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested the two sons of the governor, over alleged misappropriation of billions of naira belonging to the Jigawa State Government. South Africa customs officials discovered more than…
In 2008 the British newspaper The Observer ran an article titled ‘How a tiny West African country became the world’s first narco state’. The unwelcome moniker gained popular currency for journalists reporting on Guinea Bissau at the beginning of the decade, but has fallen out of use since the current government came to power in…
A French soldier has reportedly been arrested while carrying 27kg of cocaine through an airport in Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana, about to board a military transport aircraft bound for Paris’s Charles De Gaulle airport. A man has reportedly been arrested at Newark airport in New Jersey, USA, for attempting to smuggle cocaine from…
