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...The Ozempic effect The UK has set up a task force to tackle potentially deadly obesity drug counterfeits. Criminals are producing the drugs to capitalise on a weight-loss frenzy, Bloomberg reports....
...The victim was the niece of two of Belgium’s most notorious fugitives, wanted internationally for drug trafficking and money laundering: Othman and Younes El Ballouti....
...“Despite what our enemies claim, usually the conservatives, the armed forces’ increased participation in security tasks does not imply authoritarianism or militarism . . ....
...Salvatore’s wife and two eldest sons were also convicted for drug trafficking. Pasquale remains under house arrest....
...The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, an international task force initially spearheaded by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney, is this year expected to announce a set of rules for...
...It works alongside police forces, including Greater Manchester Police, to tackle the sale of fake goods....
...Local media attributed both killings to drug gangs. Some of the biggest hauls of cocaine confiscated in Europe since 2019 have been traced back to Paraguayan river ports....
...The warming effect, along with long-term declines in sea ice levels, are considered two major indicators of climate change....
...The Financial Action Task Force, a global financial crime watchdog, last month placed the UAE on its “grey list”, stepping up its monitoring of the Gulf state’s efforts to stem flows of dirty money....
...The UK’s top law enforcement officer, Dame Cressida Dick stands down as commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police on Sunday, leaving the government with the complicated task of finding a successor capable...
...But shootings are up 8 per cent so far this year, and 72 per cent from two years ago....
...Jon Daily, the head of the overdose prevention task force within the East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Office, has been following fentanyl’s deadly rise since it first took hold in Louisiana in 2019....
...In New York, the police department launched a public awareness campaign and a task force on Asian hate crimes. But many Asian Americans say they have not yet felt a difference in their daily lives....
...It’s a “tour de force”. It’s a “coup de maître”. It’s a “consummation” devoutly to be wished. Thanks to Roget, I could go on....
...Two prison massacres in the space of two months in facilities controlled by drug gangs cost the lives of more than 180 inmates. Lasso said security was now his top priority....
...The graffiti task force, which contains one sergeant and eight dedicated officers, is also embroiled in a protracted guerrilla war that most people don’t even notice....
...Williams, 40, the current chief of the office’s securities and commodities fraud task force, was recommended for the position by Chuck Schumer....
...The head of the task force, Wu Jianmin, warned Chinese criminals behind such operations that they would be arrested and repatriated, even those who had become naturalised Cambodian citizens....
...“Criminals of all types are increasingly using cryptocurrency to launder their illicit proceeds,” the US justice department’s cyber-digital task force said in a report last year....
...With evidence dating back to 2015 that terrorists and criminals were using crypto to move money around, the Financial Action Task Force, which spearheads the global fight against dirty money, called for...
...Susan Silbermann, the former head of Pfizer vaccines who created the company’s Covid-19 task force, says the company knew it was not going to be able to supply the whole world in the initial phase....
...“This is a dirty war,” Yohannes Gebremeskel Tesfamariam, a government general in charge of a task force on the Tigray conflict, told diplomats during a March briefing in Mekelle....
...Francisco Ramos, head of the country’s vaccination task force, said only about 1.5m vaccine doses were likely to be delivered in the first quarter, compared with almost 3m that Portugal had initially hoped...
...He added: “The relationship between Mexican security forces and US defence, security and law enforcement will freeze for a long, long time.”...
...But now, with a dedicated enforcement task force, “it shows the regulator means business”, Doug Davison, a partner at Linklaters, told Moral Money....
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