UNODC World Drug Report 2020: Global drug use rising; while COVID-19 has far reaching impact on global drug markets
Around 269 million people used drugs worldwide in 2018, which is 30 per cent more than in 2009, while over
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New Report on Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
The illegal wildlife trade is a major transnational organised crime, which generates billions of criminal proceeds each year. The Financial
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Border representatives of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan meet to discuss direction
A meeting of the border representatives of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Batken direction and the border representatives of the
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Border Security and Migration Challenges in South East Europe – webinar now available to watch
Despite the recent lockdowns of many countries borders, during the Coronavirus pandemic, illegal migration, human trafficking and smuggling continues to
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Romaina Border Police intercept antique smugglers
The smuggling of cultural and historical values was prevented by officers of the Border Police and customs officers. A truck
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Rights groups call for African borders to reopen to asylum seekers
Restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 in East and Central Africa have left large numbers of migrants stranded.
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Guardia Civil dismantle criminal organization dedicated to money laundering from marijuana trafficking
The Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency have carried out Operation Monchón in which 10 people, from the same family
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Georgia and US Enhance Maritime Cooperation
The Border Police Coast Guard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is hosting the USS Porter (DDG 78) in the
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Human Traffickers and Illegal Migramts Apprehended by Hungarian Police
A Ukrainian man driving a car, registered in Poland, was stopped by police in Siklós, who inspected the car which
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More than 10,400 packs of smuggled cigarettes discovered by border police in Midia Port
The border guards from the Coast Guard, under the coordination of the prosecutor from the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the
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Border Patrol Seizes $1.5m in Narcotics
U.S. Border Patrol Agents stopped a drug smuggling attempt near Alamogordo. Border Patrol Agents assigned to the immigration checkpoint on
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Prices for people smuggling on Central and Western Mediterranean routes
Over the last three years, people smugglers have pocketed more than EUR 330 million from their criminal operations on the
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Europol publishes the new EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2020
Report features facts, figures and trends regarding terrorist attacks and arrests in the EU in 2019 Terrorists’ ultimate goal is
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Watch the latest Webinar from Border Security Report
Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) and its Effects on Safe and Dignified Migration in West Africawith Justice Amevor, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration,
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Migration Flows Across West and Central Africa Nearly Halved by COVID-19; Mobile Populations Economically Impacted
Data collected at 35 key transit points across West and Central Africa by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) indicate
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Port of San Luis CBP Officers Make Large Fentanyl Bust
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, officers seized nearly 111 pounds of fentanyl from a United States
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SEF investigation: Foreign national sentenced for swindling and assisting unlawful immigration
Under an investigation initiated in 2018 by the Immigration and Borders Service (SEF), and coordinated by DIAP Lisboa, a foreign
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Smuggling of 1,500 bundles of cigarettes between a load of sand
The Argentine National Gendarmerie seized 1,500 packets of cigarettes that were transported hidden in sand. The event took place in
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