Items tagged with crime
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| Over a quarter of cocaine seized in Latin American ports destined for Antwerp [22.10.2022] | This year, an estimated 200 tonnes of cocaine destined for overseas have already been seized in Latin American Ports, 65 tonnes of which were destine ... |
| The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths [08.09.2022] | Proposition 64, California’s 2016 landmark cannabis initiative, sold voters on the promise a legal market would cripple the drug’s outlaw trade, with ... |
| Banning tourists from cannabis cafes will cut back on crime: Halsema [25.06.2022] | Amsterdam’s cannabis cafes are often intertwined with serious crime and play a serious role in money laundering, the capital’s mayor Femke Halsema ha ... |
| Legalise ecstasy and cannabis to combat drugs crime: think tank [23.06.2022] | Dutch drugs criminality could be tackled by legalising ecstasy and cannabis and by a taking a much tougher approach to cocaine smuggling, an independ ... |
| Dutch police busted fewer cannabis plantations, drug labs last year [04.04.2022] | The police busted and dismantled fewer synthetic drug labs and cannabis plantations last year, latest figures show. The number of discovered drug lab ... |
| How the Netherlands became a global cocaine hub [23.03.2022] | While the scale of the discovery was shocking, the fact of it was not. The number of cocaine seizures in Europe has been rising steadily, quadrupling ... |
| Rotterdam port cocaine seizures hit new high, total street value over €5bn [10.01.2022] | Customs officials based at Rotterdam port seized cocaine with a street value of over €5bn last year, or a total of over 70 tonnes of the class A drug ... |
| The ‘cocaine collectors’ retrieving smuggled drugs in Rotterdam [26.11.2021] | As the volume of cocaine trafficked into the Netherlands through the port city of Rotterdam increases, so too does the number of young men employed b ... |
| Graft, drug trafficking threaten Albania's chances of joining EU [04.10.2021] | Researcher Fatjona Mejdini states that the drug problem had its roots in 1991, when Albania went from an isolated communist dictatorship straight to ... |
| 40 mayors call on next Dutch government to legalise marijuana [23.09.2021] | Almost 40 Dutch mayors, mainly from the south of the Netherlands, have signed a manifesto calling on the government to legalise soft drugs (cannabis) ... |
| Antwerp and Rotterdam are new epicentre of European cocaine trade [09.09.2021] | The increased use of shipping containers to conceal drugs has made the high volume ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg the new epicentre of the E ... |
| ‘Movie-plot’ cocaine case highlights shipping industry drug problem [28.06.2021] | On June 17, 2019, US law enforcement agents boarded a shipping vessel in Philadelphia and seized 19.75 tons of cocaine with a street value of over $1 ... |
| MDMA gangs are literally polluting Europe [18.06.2021] | Noxious dumps in “drug pits” is one of many new ways drug gangs in the Netherlands and Belgium are disposing of the toxic waste created in one of the ... |
| Generations of Albanians lived off cannabis production. Can they stop? [12.04.2021] | Large-scale cannabis cultivation in Albania dates to the early 1990s, not long after the fall of the country’s Communist dictatorship, when the parlo ... |
| Colombia’s cartels target Europe with cocaine, corruption and torture [11.04.2021] | At 5am on a chilly Tuesday morning last month, 1,600 police officers and balaclava-wearing special forces, bristling with arms and battering rams, we ... |
| Christiania residence ban an abuse of power, contends Danish Institute for Human Rights [31.03.2021] | Christoffer Badse, the head of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, has accused the government of abusing its power with the continuance of its res ... |
| Special Report: Burner phones and banking apps [03.12.2020] | U.S. law enforcement officials say Chinese “money brokers” represent one of the most worrisome new threats in the war on drugs. Small cells of Chines ... |
| Mexico may become the third country to legalise cannabis [21.11.2020] | On November 19, the Senate began debating a bill that would make Mexico the third country in the world, after Uruguay and Canada, to legalise cannabi ... |
| Medical marijuana grow licences exploited by criminals to sell weed on the illegal market, police say [19.11.2020] | A lack of oversight into who is growing medical cannabis and how much is being grown is allowing criminals to sell pot on the illegal market, accordi ... |
| L'appel de trois maires LR pour "légaliser la consommation de cannabis" [26.09.2020] | Les maires Les Républicains Gil Avérous (Châteauroux), Boris Ravignon (Charleville-Mézières) et Arnaud Robinet (Reims) réclament dans cette tribune l ... |
| Colombia lawmakers seek to take control of cocaine market. It’s a long shot [21.09.2020] | Legislators weary of Colombia’s whack-a-mole anti-narcotics efforts propose to stop the often violent trafficking of cocaine that has plagued the cou ... |
| Congressional researchers admit legalizing marijuana hurts Mexican drug cartel profits [03.08.2020] | Demand for marijuana illegally trafficked from Mexico will continue to decline as the legalization movement spreads, a new report from the Congressio ... |
| Over 1,100 children trafficked into UK drug trade, data shows [30.07.2020] | More than 1,100 children have been trafficked into the UK’s drug trade, new Home Office figures reveal. The data obtained by the drug reform charity ... |
| La légalisation du cannabis, un levier de développement ? [23.07.2020] | Et si le nouveau modèle de développement intégrait la légalisation du cannabis ? Ce jeudi 23 juillet, la CSMD a organisé un atelier de travail avec d ... |
| Amount of cocaine intercepted by Dutch customs doubled in first half of 2020 [16.07.2020] | Customs officers seized twice as much cocaine in the first six months of 2020 than in the same period last year. More than 25,000 kilograms of the dr ... |
| A massive Asian drug bust has stirred a fentanyl mystery [10.06.2020] | As the UNODC put it, this was “one of the largest and most successful counternarcotics operations” in Asia’s history. Myanmar’s army and police, whic ... |
| Cannabis cultivation in Albania expected to increase [01.06.2020] | Albania is expected to see an increase of cannabis production in the wake of the coronavirus. According to a report compiled by Europol, the cultivat ... |
| Big source of illicit cannabis, Albania mulls legalising medical use [25.05.2020] | On May 9, Albania’s Socialist Party Prime Minister, Edi Rama, announced that his government had been quietly working for the past year on a bill that ... |
| What lockdown? World’s cocaine traffickers sniff at movement restrictions [20.05.2020] | The world’s cocaine industry — which produces close to 2,000 metric tons a year and makes tens of billions of dollars — has adapted better than many ... |
| 'Instead of doctors, they send police to kill us': locked-down Rio faces deadly raids [18.05.2020] | Police operations and body bags are nothing new to Rio, where state police killed a record 1,810 people last year, nearly five a day. But with the ci ... |
| ‘License to Kill’: Inside Rio’s record year of police killings [18.05.2020] | Officially, the police in Brazil are allowed to use lethal force only to confront an imminent threat. But an analysis of four dozen police killings i ... |
| Dutch and Mexican gangs are teaming up to sell high-end meth to Asia [14.05.2020] | A new and rapidly evolving Dutch meth trade shows evidence of collusion between Mexican and Dutch organized crime groups to produce and traffic high ... |
| Albanian gov't working to legalize cultivation of medical cannabis [10.05.2020] | The Albanian government is close to concluding a draft law which allows for the cultivation of medical cannabis in the country. According to Rama, th ... |
| Peruvian coca farmers to Paris pushers, coronavirus upends global narcotics trade [22.04.2020] | The coronavirus outbreak has upended industries across the globe. The international narcotics trade has not been spared. From the cartel badlands alo ... |
| High time: Netherlands moves to clean up absurd cannabis policy [06.02.2020] | If there’s one contradiction that goes to the heart of why Dutch drugs policy has lost its way, it’s this: that while it’s legal for “coffee shops” t ... |
| MPs, health experts and lawyers call for new approach to drugs [20.01.2020] | MPs, television celebrities, lawyers, leading lights from the dance scene and health experts are among the 79 people who signed a manifesto calling f ... |
| Belgium’s most powerful politician has a drugs problem [11.01.2020] | Drug gangs increasingly choose Antwerp over the port of Rotterdam since checks there have become tougher. Almost one-third of all cocaine intercepted ... |
| Cannabis sales in EU raise $13 billion for crime gangs [26.11.2019] | Europeans spent at least 11.6 billion euros (£9.9 billion) in 2017 on illegal cannabis purchases, confirming marijuana as the largest drugs market in ... |
| ‘War on drugs’ is driving deforestation [21.11.2019] | Drug trafficking and the corresponding ‘war on drugs’ are driving deforestation in Central America, two new reports published by Fundación Neotropica ... |
| Criminals launder €13bn a year in the Netherlands, most crime cash is Dutch [13.11.2019] | At least €13bn is laundered through the Netherlands on an annual basis, with most of the money coming from Dutch criminal enterprises, according to n ... |
| Sadiq Khan: Time for cannabis rethink to cut violent crime [01.11.2019] | London Mayor Sadiq Khan called for a rethink on cannabis laws and policing amid concern about the links between drugs and violent crime. The Mayor so ... |
| Cannabis: le Maroc peut-il surfer sur la vague verte? [24.09.2019] | Le pétrole vert du Maroc fait saliver les nouvelles industries émergentes qui promettent des produits miracles à base de cannabis. Malgré les perspec ... |
| A new ‘war on drugs’ is short sighted and naive [16.09.2019] | Forty years ago, the Netherlands was far ahead of its time. But today we see the country moving backwards, as evidenced by a recent report on the dru ... |
| Legalise cannabis, says Liberal Democrat candidate for London mayor [14.09.2019] | The legalisation of cannabis should be tested in London to improve public health and stop young people being drawn into crime, a London mayoral candi ... |
| Canadian marijuana legalisation has not removed crime: Dutch police lecturer [27.08.2019] | Canada’s decision to legalise cannabis has not resulted in removing organised crime from the chain. Police Academy lecturer Pieter Tops, who visited ... |
| ‘They came to kill.’ Almost 5 die daily at hands of Rio police [26.05.2019] | Shooting from helicopters, armored personnel carriers or at close range, police officers in Rio de Janeiro have gunned down 558 people during the fir ... |
| ‘They have free rein’: Rio residents fear police violence under far-right rule [17.05.2019] | During campaigning last year, Rio’s new, far-right governor, Wilson Witzel, promised a “slaughter” of gun-toting drug gangsters using helicopters and ... |
| Is it possible the decriminalization of drugs in Mexico? [10.05.2019] | The presentation of the National Development Plan (NDP) by the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has put on the table again the issue ... |
| War on drugs has helped cocaine traffickers conquer swathes of Central America, study suggests [01.04.2019] | A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, which simulated the complex dynamics between drug traffickers ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte photographed with suspected Chinese ‘drug lords’, says former narcotics official [25.03.2019] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has faced widespread criticism over his deadly drug crackdown, has been photographed with two Chinese men s ... |
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