News Briefing – Week of 9 November 2020

Cocaine, General Aviation, Human trafficking, Newsbriefings, Operation, Organised Crime Organisation, Publication, SEACOP, Seizure, Senegal, Spain, Timber, Trafficking, Training, Wildlife trafficking

09/11/2020 – The Spanish National Police in a joint operation with Europol dismantled a criminal organisation based in Barcelona involved in human trafficking in several European countries. 09/11/2020 – The Guatemalan authorities located a crashed plane containing 1028 kilograms of cocaine in a coastal area on the border with Mexico. In the accident, one person…

News Briefing – Week of 12 October

Cigarettes, Newsbriefings, Organised Crime Organisation, Publication, Seizure, Timber, Trafficking, West Africa

12/10/2020 – During an operation at the port of Tema, the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority seized  436 pistols, ammunition and pepper spray.  13/10/2020 – Dutch law enforcement authorities dismantled an illegal factory producing cigarettes. They seized 3.6 million cigarettes, 32,000kg of tobacco and arrested 13 suspects.  13/10/2020 – 250kg of cocaine was seized in the…