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Bukit Aman CID director Comm Datuk Seri Abd Jalil Hassan said the Malaysians, aged 19 to 43, were rescued by the Cambodian National Police with the cooperation of Malaysian Police, Interpol, Aseanapol and the Foreign Ministry. They were rescued from Preah Sihanouk province in Cambodia. “The victims claimed that they were duped by a job offer of working as customer service representatives with lucrative salaries for a Cambodian company. They had stumbled upon the job listing on Facebook,” he said. Once the victims reached Cambodia, Comm Abd Jalil said their personal documents were seized and their movements were restricted. They only realised that they were duped once they reached Cambodia. “We believe they were forced to work as scammers,” he said.
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endarmes detect a parcel with 1,283 illegally transferred ammunition
Members of the “Colastine” Road Safety Section, dependent on the “Santa Fe Norte” Core Squadron, stopped the march of a vehicle belonging to a parcel company that was traveling from the capital city of Santa Fe to the city of Paraná, Entre Ríos. When inspecting the load of the vehicle, on kilometer 10.4 of National
Route No. 168, the uniformed officers were alerted by the weight and size of a package, for which they reported the fact to the Attorney General’s Office of the Public Ministry of the Accusation . Consequently, the officials proceeded to open the parcel, verifying that it was moving two boxes with a total of 1,133 caliber 22 Long ammunition, as well as three other boxes with 150 caliber 22 Magnum ammunition.
(subject to expert confirmation of the type and amount of the same), thus constituting the detention in flagrante delicto of 2 individuals.
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riminal network involved in labour exploitation in the UK and Romania dismantled Supported by Eurojust and Europol,
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exican army intercepts 300 kilograms of cocaine
The Mexican Army arrested 2 probable persons responsible for transporting drugs and suppliers of a criminal group that operates in the states of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, seizing approximately 300 kilograms of cocaine. When carrying out the planning and intelligence work to strengthen the rule of law in the country and detect members of criminal organizations with a presence in these entities, information was obtained on a drug transfer from the south of the country that used 2 tractor-trailers as a front, with feed for cattle whose final destination would be the state of Nuevo León. Through the monitoring carried out, the personnel of the Mexican Army implemented a land interception operation on the transfer route identified so that the reference trucks would go to the Strategic Security Military Post located in the municipality of Jaumave, Tamps. The aforementioned vehicles were taken to the non-intrusive gamma ray inspection area, where it was confirmed that they were transporting 300 packages containing possible cocaine, weighing approximately 300 kilograms
Border Security Report | March/April 2022
judicial and law enforcement authorities in the United Kingdom and Romania have dismantled a criminal network involved in human trafficking, labour exploitation and money laundering. During an action day, five suspects were arrested and twenty-five locations searched across the two countries. Believed to be active since at least 2018, the organised crime group (OGC) lured vulnerable people in unstable financial situations in Romania by offering them jobs in the UK. The victims were transported to the UK, where they had their ID documents and phones removed. They were forced to work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week without sufficient food or basic health care. The suspects established a wide network for the recruitment, transportation, accommodation and exploitation of victims. They formed links with local companies, such as factories and commercial car valeting sites, which forced the victims to work in return for little or no remuneration.
