Key legal framework UN Conventions ratified 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 2000 UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime Narcotics laws The Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Act 1997 Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1992 Drug Trafficking Offences (Amendment) Act 2008 British Virgin Islands and the Global Illicit Flows Programme…
Key legal framework UN Conventions ratified 1961 UN Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol 1971 UN Convention on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime UN Convention against Corruption Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking…
Key legal framework UN Conventions ratified 1961 UN Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol 1971 UN Convention on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 2000 UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their…
Key legal framework UN Conventions ratified 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Narcotics laws Money Laundering Reporting Authority Act 2000 Drugs Trafficking Offences Act Drugs Trafficking Offences (Amendment) Act 2004 Proceeds of Crime Act 2009 Anguilla and the Global Illicit Flows Programme SEACOP BENEFICIARY COUNTRY iARMS PARTNER COUNTRY…
British news channels have reported the seizure of three tonnes of cocaine from a vessel that was intercepted on the 23 April, 100 miles east off Aberdeen. The case marks the biggest drug seizure in British history, the product of an intensive operation by Police Scotland, the UK National Crime Agency, the UK Border Force,…
UK authorities have seized a record £500 million worth of cocaine from a ship in the North Sea. Nine Turkish nationals have been charged with drug trafficking offences. Colombia’s Health Ministry has recommended banning the herbicide spray that kills coca crops, glyphosate, following the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) classification of it as a carcinogen in…
German customs officials have reportedly found 257 kilograms of pure cocaine in a shipment of peanuts from Argentina. Around 21 kilograms of cocaine, estimated to be worth around US$600,000 has reportedly been found washed up on Destin beach in Florida. Pierre Lapaque, a top UN narcotics official, has said that Africa is “the market of…
SEACOP experts carried out scoping visits to Barbados, Grenada and Trinidad & Tobago during April. Eleven countries in the Eastern Caribbean will be visited during April to June, in order to meet with relevant Law Enforcement Agencies and discuss in detail their training and equipment requirements. The first phase of specialist training for Maritime Intelligence Units…
On 15th April 2015 a yacht carrying more than two tonnes of cocaine to Europe was seized in the Eastern Caribbean. Coincidentally, the seizure took place during a scoping visit to the region by SEACOP experts to plan capacity building against maritime trafficking under Phase III of SEACOP. The Sailing yacht “SILANDRA” was intercepted by…
A Colombian drug gang who smuggled an estimated £25million worth of cocaine into the UK inside plastic bananas has been jailed for a total of 59 years. The Costa Concordia, which sunk in January 2012, was allegedly carrying a cocaine shipment sent by the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, according to investigators. A plane has crashed in Venezuela,…
