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DA NANG (VNS) - Viet Nam's Deputy Minister of Public Security Le Quy Vuong has warned against the emerging threats of money laundering and cyber crime and called for ASEAN nations to work together to stop these criminals operating in the region.

Vuong made the call at the opening ceremony of the 13th ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime, which was held in the central city of Da Nang yesterday.

"These growing transnational crimes challenge the security of every ASEAN nation, so members must work together to deal with them," he said.

Viet Nam's police force, working with its ASEAN colleagues, detected 261 cyber crimes last year which resulted in a loss of VND2 trillion (US$95 million), the Viet Nam Interpol office has reported.

In the first three months of this year, police detected 17 incidents and arrested 34 people on online fraud charges.

According to Lieutenant General Do Kim Tuyen, deputy head of the Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security, money laundering is still a very new crime in Viet Nam.

He said the police force had detected 650 suspicious bank transactions last year, of which 22 have since been placed under investigation.

However, the financial damage done by money laundering has yet to be reported.

The meetings in Da Nang will end on Friday.

There are 200 participants from the 10 ASEAN member nations and the bloc's key dialogue partners: China, Japan, the US, South Korea, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, the European Union, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Asia Regional Trafficking in Persons Project.

Speaking on the sidelines of the meeting, the head of the Philippines delegation Felizando Serapior said: "During the group session we discussed initiatives to improve the training of staff working to combat human trafficking.

"We also emphasised that further education is needed for border patrol officers because they play an important role in the management of immigration."

Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit, head of the Thai delegation, revealed that his country had requested environmental crimes to be included in the transnational crime meeting discussions.

"This type of crime is an alarming problem because it infringes wildlife and can badly impact the environment in many countries. Despite this, strong enough action has not yet been taken to bring environmental criminals to justice," he said. — VNS

 

Source: vietnamnews.vn
June 20th, 2013

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ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM WORKSHOP ON

COMBATING WILFLIFE TRAFFICKING

SHANGRI-LA RASA RIA HOTEL, TUARAN SABAH, MALAYSIA

30 MARCH – 1 APRIL 2015

In conjunction with Malaysia’s Chairmanship of ASEAN in 2015 and as part of Malaysia’s commitment to the Hanoi Plan of Action to Implement the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Vision Statement, Malaysia and the United States of America are co-hosting the ARF Workshop on Combating Wildlife Trafficking from 30 March 2015 to 1 April 2015 in Tuaran, Sabah, Malaysia.

 

The 3-day Workshop focuses on enhancing trans-boundary and regional cooperation in combating wildlife trafficking, a pressing transnational issue demanding global cooperation. It brings together expert speakers from selected ARF Participating Countries as well as regional organizations involved with the issue of wildlife trafficking by featuring case studies, country experiences, lessons learned and sharing of public awareness campaigns.

Participants will also have the opportunity to visit Shangri-La’s Rasa Ria Nature Reserve to observe rehabilitation programmes for orangutans.

More than 60 participants from Governments and NGOs and Korea and China include Senior/director-level officials and subject matter experts representing national agencies of the ARF Participating Countries as well as academicians involved with the issue of wildlife trafficking are among those that will be participating in the workshop.

The Workshop will be officiated by Honourable Dato’ Sri Anifah Hj. Aman, Minister of foreign Affairs, Malaysia on 30 March 2015 with the presence of the Honourable Datuk Seri Panglima Masidi Manjun, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment of Sabah and Her Excellency Catherine A. Novelli, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment of the United States of America. YBhg. Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh, Malaysia’s Ambassador for Orangutan Conservation will be the guest speaker for the Workshop.

Among the main topics of discussion at the Workshop include: understanding the poaching and trafficking threat: ASEAN perspective; major challenges and areas for enhanced cooperation; best practices in prevention and investigation of wildlife poaching and trafficking; strengthening regional cooperation to combat wildlife trafficking; and communication and education awareness initiatives.

The Workshop is part of Malaysia’s deliverables as the Chairman of ASEAN 2015 as well as the Chairman of the ARF.

The outcomes of the Workshop will be reported to the 22nd ARF Ministerial Meeting scheduled to be held in Malaysia in August 2015.

PUTRAJAYA

29 March 2015

 

Read more on the CITES website:http://cites.org/eng/ASEAN_member_States_discuss_enhancing_regional_cooperation_to_combat_poaching_and_illegal_trade_in_wildlife

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