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Brazil: drugs and porous borders
«The jungle frontier between Brazil and Bolivia is longer than the US-Mexico border, but the task of stemming the cocaine that drug officials say is flooding the country falls to a handful of Brazilian policemen», the Guardian reports. Bolivian and [...]
Colorado gjør bruk av marihuana lovlig
«Guvernøren undertegnet en ny lov som velgerne stemte for i en folkeavstemning», melder Dagbladet. Den juridiske situasjonen forblir likevel uklar på grunn av føderal lovgivning i USA. [...]
Bank to pay $340m for Iran deals
«Standard Chartered agrees a $340m settlement with New York regulators that accused it of hiding $250bn of transactions with Iran», the BBC says. The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) will also install a monitor [...]
Top Colombian drug lord arrested
«Colombian police arrest one of the country’s main drug lords, Erikson Vargas who is also known as Sebastian, at a ranch in Medellin», the BBC reports. Vargas was head of an criminal organisation called the «Office [...]
Bankaksje stuper etter hvitvasking-anklager i Iran
«Standard Chartered har havnet i sentrum av en politisk krise», skriver E24. Amerikanske myndigheter mener banken har bistått Iran i hvitvasking av penger. Anklagene kommer etter at HSBC har blitt anklaget for å ha hvitvaske penger fra [...]
US ‘on side of Mexican reporters’
According to US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, «the US is ‘deeply worried’ by attacks on Mexican journalists», the BBC reports. Organized crime is targeting Mexican reporters in an attempt to intimidate and limit coverage, [...]
Guinea-Bissau drug trade ‘rises’
«The UN Security Council expresses concern that drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau has increased since the April coup», the BBC says. Guinea-Bissau has become a major hub for smuggling drugs to Europe, allegedly in collusion with top [...]
US and UN disagree on Colombia cocaine yield
«Colombia’s pure cocaine production has fallen 25% in the past year, and 72% since 2001, according to US figures», the BBC reports. However, the report contradicts a UN study released last week, which said cocaine production had [...]
Fant mexicanske smuglertunneler
«Amerikanske myndigheter og den mexicanske hæren har avdekket to nye smuglertunneler mellom Mexico og USA, og mener de blir stadig mer avanserte», skriver NRK. Totalt 156 tunneler er blitt oppdaget siden 1990. by DVIDSHUB [...]
VIDEO: Mexican drug cartels’ ‘splashdown’
«Texan police are launching new boats equipped with machine guns, in a bid to stop the Mexican drug cartels’ latest escape tactic – a «splashdown»", the BBC says. [...]
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