News Briefing – Week of 6 April

Brazil, Cannabis, Cocaine, Fake medicine, Heroin, Mozambique, Newsbriefings, opium, Organised Crime Organisation, Production, Seizure, Trafficking, Wildlife trafficking

Heroin production is on the rise in the Golden Triangle according to the Narcotics Control Board secretary-general in Thailand and as seizure along the border between Myanmar and Laos suggest. The Golden Triangle is one of the largest areas where opium is grown.   A large criminal network involved in fraud, money laundering and social…

An autumn highlight in the EU’s capital: the first EU Crime Week brought law enforcement, DEVCO project partners, EU agencies and services together to address organised crime

AIRCOP, Airport, Caribbean, Cocaine, Cooperation, CORMS, CRIMJUST, EU, EU-ACT, General Aviation, GIFP, INTERPOL, Latin America, Organised Crime Organisation, Programme and Projects News, Publication, Security threats, Seizure, Trafficking, UN, West Africa, World Customs Organisation

For 5 days, from 25 to 29 November, participants exchanged on coordination and synergies, but also challenges in the fight against illicit trafficking, and in particular drug trafficking, both inside and outside Europe. The launch of the EU Drug Market’s Report on 26 November underpinned discussions on the current global drug production and European consumption,…