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Interpol seeks visa-free travel for its cops

AP News 42 days ago

Interpol seeks visa-free travel for its investigators The global police organization Interpol began issuing special passports Tuesday to its senior investigators, aimed at allowing them to enter any of the group's 188 member countries without visas. Pakistan and Ukraine become the first ...

Interpol to help UN in peacekeeping missions

AFP Global Edition 43 days ago

Interpol, the global police organisation, said Monday it will provide enhanced technical and advisory support to the United Nations in the world body's peacekeeping missions worldwide. Interpol director of legal affairs Joel Sollier told reporters in Singapore that his organisation "will provide ...

Officials: Criminals cooperate better than police

AP News 43 days ago

Law enforcement officials warn global crime gangs cooperate better than world's police forces Transnational crime syndicates are becoming stronger by exploiting technology, forging links with one another and taking advantage of insufficient coordination among the world's police forces, officials at an Interpol ...

Top Rwanda genocide suspect arrested

AFP Global Edition 48 days ago

Ugandan police have arrested top Rwandan genocide suspect Idelphonse Nizeyimana, who is accused of organising a massacre of students and the murder of an emblematic Tutsi queen, officials said Tuesday. Nizeyimana, who was given the nickname "Butcher of Butare," was captured Monday ...

Ben Barka's son slams suspension of French arrest warrants

AFP Global Edition 49 days ago

The son of Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka abducted in 1965 on Saturday slammed a French decision to suspend international arrest warrants for four Moroccans implicated in his disappearance. Bechir Ben Barka cited "reasons of the state" behind the request Friday ...

Argentina prosecutor requests Menem arrest

AFP Global Edition 52 days ago

An Argentine prosecutor asked an appeals court to detain former president Carlos Menem over allegations he helped obstruct an investigation into a deadly 1994 attack on a building housing Jewish charities. As a sitting senator, Memen, 79, has judicial immunity, and to ...

Two accused Romanian phishers plead innocent

SC Magazine 53 days ago

Fresh off the first-ever U.S. sentencing of a foreign citizen accused of phishing, prosecutors are going after two co-conspirators, recently extradited to face fraud and ID theft charges. Two Romanian citizens allegedly involved in a large-scale phishing scam have been extradited to ...

Venezuela asks Interpol to capture ex-president

AP News 54 days ago

Venezuela asks Interpol to capture former president under investigation for riot deaths Venezuela's top prosecutor is asking Interpol to capture former President Carlos Andres Perez for violence committed during street protests two decades ago. Prosecutors will ask Interpol to issue a "red ...

Interpol to get e-passports to chase crooks across borders

AFP American Edition 63 days ago

Interpol has chosen a Ukrainian-led consortium to produce new electronic passports for its officers to help them in cross-border crime-fighting, the international police agency announced Monday. Delivering the keynote address to an International Civil Aviation Organization symposium on biometrics and security standards, ...

Dutch police hunt fugitive human trafficker

AP Features 68 days ago

Dutch police are hunting for one of the country's most notorious human traffickers after he fled while on a temporarily release from prison to visit his wife and baby. A court's decision to allow Saban Baran out of his cell for a ...

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