Day: March 3, 2021

On 3 March, a post on the FCPA Blog reported that World Bank had debarred a Spanish engineering services company for 3½ years for collusive, corrupt, and fraudulent practices related to 2 projects in Vietnam.  The company is Grupo Mecánica del Vuelo Sistemas SAU, a subsidiary of Spanish international technology group GMV.

https://fcpablog.com/2021/03/03/world-bank-hits-spanish-engineering-firm-with-long-debarment/

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On 3 March, the Guardian reported that US authorities have launched an investigation into allegations of forced labour in Boohoo’s UK supply chain, which could lead to the online fashion seller’s goods being impounded at ports.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/02/us-should-consider-ban-on-boohoo-clothing-says-charity

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On 2 March, an article from Insight Crime says that, with higher profits and lower risks than the US, Europe has emerged recently as arguably the most important cocaine market in the world.  InSight Crime and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) spent 2 years carrying out fieldwork in more than 10 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe to trace the evolution of the European cocaine trade, and the Latin American and European criminal networks that have shaped it.  The result is a 65-page joint investigative report titled “The Cocaine Pipeline to Europe”.  Gone are the days of a single criminal group controlling every link of the drug trafficking chain from Latin America to Europe. Instead, the supply chain is fluid, with different multinational mafias working together on shipments.

https://insightcrime.org/news/latam-europe-cocaine-market/

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On 3 March, an Interpol news release advised that South African authorities have seized hundreds of fake COVID-19 vaccines following a global alert issued by Interpol warning vaccines would be a prime target for criminal networks.  Some 400 ampoules – equivalent to around 2,400 doses – containing the fake vaccine were found at a warehouse. In China, police successfully identified a network selling counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines, raided the manufacturing premises, resulting in the arrest of some 80 suspects, and seized more than 3,000 fake vaccines on the scene.  The Interpol Secretary General said that this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine related crime.

https://www.interpol.int/News-and-Events/News/2021/Fake-COVID-vaccine-distribution-network-dismantled-after-INTERPOL-alert

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