The EU cuts off Russia’s access to drug databases. The dealers laugh
Until now, one of the few fields in which cooperation between Russia and the West continued was crime prevention, especially in the field of drug trafficking prevention. Now this link too appears to be in the process of being canceled: Russian state media have announced that the European Union has suspended its drug trafficking data-sharing program with Russian law enforcement agencies . " The EU has suspended contacts and data sharing with Russia in the context of the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction," said a senior official from the Russian Foreign Ministry , " reports TASS.
"The European Union has unilaterally suspended contacts with experts and data sharing" within the EMCDDA, confirmed Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov. "The OSCE annual conference on the fight against drugs has been postponed indefinitely," he added.
The Russian official called the move counterproductive, with the inevitable consequence that drug traffickers will be able to act with greater impunity, as a country the size of Russia is cut off from the data-sharing program.
“ We believe this is a destructive approach. It plays into the game of drug traffickers, who take advantage of disagreements between countries to increase supplies of illicit drugs in Europe , ”he said.
However, Russia remains and likely will continue to remain a vital country within INTERPOL, the largest international police organization in the world, which represents 194 member countries.
According to the INTERPOL website, “ Russia is the largest country in the world by area and borders on countries in North Asia and Europe. The identification, investigation and prevention of serious crimes in Europe and Asia are an important part of the daily work carried out by INTERPOL's National Central Office (NCB) in Moscow ”.
The document also underlines the importance of Russian law enforcement agencies in monitoring international crime: “ The NCB's global police cooperation activities are focused on Russian criminal areas of priority interest; these include terrorism, organized crime – particularly drugs and financial crime – and the international fugitive investigations they generate. Cybercrime is also an emerging criminal area ”. Given the rapid deterioration of diplomatic relations with the West, this too could be threatened as a vital area of close coordination. Imagine if data on terrorists or big international drug dealers were no longer shared, allowing them to travel free across huge spaces.
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