AIRCOP Newsletter – June 2020
June 2020 Newsletter
The AIRCOP network in Latin America and the Caribbean keeps yielding outstanding results!
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected air traffic worldwide, the AIRCOP network remains attentive and operational. In June 2020, several of the AIRCOP JAITFs in collaboration with partners and beneficiaries in Latin America and the Caribbean intercepted multiple illicit commodities that included: 95 kg of cannabis from six different and independent seizures made by…
News Briefing – Week of 22 June
22/06/2020 – French customs seized 552 kg of cannabis in a lorry that left Spain and was transporting fruits and vegetable to the Rungis market. 23/06/2020 – Wildlife trafficking in Colombia is prolific. The fight against the wildlife trafficking industry is not yet fully operational because the country is not yet equipped with the adequate legislation and technologies…
Countering Firearms Trafficking Project Flyer
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Countering Firearms Trafficking Project Brochure
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CRIMJUST Inter-regional Investigative Case Forum (Spanish)
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CRIMJUST Inter-regional Investigative Case Forum (French)
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CRIMJUST training courses on “specialised controlled deliveries”
CRIMJUST, one of the component projects of the Global Illicit Flows Programme of the European Union, in collaboration with the Iberoamerican Network of Anti-drug Prosecutors (Red de Fiscales Antidroga de Iberoamérica) successfully implemented the first two of a series of four training courses on specialised controlled delivery. Designed to tackle transnational drug trafficking the training…
Latest activities implemented by EU-ACT
EU-ACT in Ukraine: Successful online webinar on financial investigations Project EU-ACT, a component project of the Global Illicit Flows Programme, successfully implemented a two-day webinar on 16 and 17 June 2020 on the topic “Improving parallel financial investigations for law enforcement agencies in Ukraine”. The event, that brought together over 120 participants representing all law…
News Briefing – Week of 8 June
9/06/2020 – Polish authorities seized three tonnes of cocaine that was concealed in barrels of frozen pineapple pulp that had been shipped from Ecuador, the record seizure led to the arrest of three suspects and follows a two tonne seizure made back in December 2019. 9/06/2020 – The illegal trade and poaching of Jaguars is growing in Central and…