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Ghana

Ghana: national security coordinator calls for law on confiscation of assets

by Ghana News Agency

Lieutenant Colonel Larry Gbevlo-Lartey, National Security Coordinator, on Monday called for specific laws on seizure and confiscation of assets to make criminal acts unprofitable

Ghana sitting on money laundering time bomb

by Ghana Web

A public policy think tank, the Danquah Institute has alleged that a lot of shops in Ghana are mere fronts for money laundering and illegal money transfers between Ghana and countries such as the UK, Germany and the Netherlands which are the three main channels of remittances into Ghana

UK e-waste illegally dumped in Ghana

by Guardian

British electronic waste is being exported to poor African nations where it threatens the environment and human health, reveals joint Panorama and EIA investigation

G8 ministers target Africa cocaine route

by Associated Press

G8 powers Tuesday launched a strategy to curb drug trafficking by sharing intelligence particularly targeting west Africa, a major transit region for cocaine from Latin America to Europe

Organised crime sells recycled rubbish to Third World countries

by Financial Times

Britain’s recycling industry is being exploited by criminal gangs that have illegally shipped large quantities of toxic material to developing countries, prosecutors will claim at a series of court cases in the pipeline

Scotland’s toxic waste is poisoning Africa and Asia

by Herald Scotland

Tens of thousands of tonnes of toxic waste from Scotland are being illegally dumped in Africa and Asia every year with the help of organised criminal gangs, according to an investigation by the Scottish Government’s environmental watchdog

Is Ghana the center of African criminal networks?

by Modern Ghana

Internet crime, drug trafficking, weapons smuggling issues which has become very rampant in West Africa, especially Ghana, is likely to be increasingly