This week, InSight Crime published two articles within the #NarcoFiles series, a transnational investigation by 40 media outlets.
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November 10, 2023
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This week, InSight Crime published two articles within the #NarcoFiles series, a transnational investigation by 40 media outlets analyzing the contents of leaked emails from the Colombian Attorney General’s Office.
In the first, InSight Crime highlights connections ([link removed]) between high-ranking Suriname government officials and the cocaine trade, with the country serving as an important transit point for Colombian cocaine en route to consumer markets in Europe and the United States. In the second, we explore Israeli gangs’ prominence ([link removed]) in Colombia and their involvement in drug trafficking, human trafficking, and money laundering.
In other stories, we analyze how recent actions ([link removed]) by Colombia’s armed groups highlight weaknesses within President Gustavo Petro’s peace process, and -- employing an interactive network map -- we reveal the inner workings of Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset’s unorthodox transnational network ([link removed]) .
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** Suriname VP, Ex-President Linked to Drug Trafficking in Colombia AG Emails ([link removed])
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US and Colombian investigators connected Suriname’s Vice President Ronnie Brunswijk and ex-President Desi Bouterse to recent involvement in drug trafficking, according to hacked emails that suggest ongoing high-level political links to organized crime in South America’s smallest country.
The emails were among a trove of documents stolen from Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office in 2022 and provided to a consortium of journalists, including InSight Crime.
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** Israeli Gangs’ Colombia Operations Detailed in Hacked AG Files ([link removed])
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Israeli crime groups in major Colombian cities have been serving a growing market of tourists seeking sex and drugs, at times expanding into transnational trafficking and alarming authorities in both countries, according to hacked records from Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office.
The hacked files, most of which are from 2018 to 2022, include phone tap records, arrest and seizure reports, and correspondence between Israeli and Colombian officials, who exchanged information and expressed growing concern about Israeli gangs’ operations in Colombia.
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** Local Police Could Disrupt Attempts to Remove Militias from Rio, Brazil ([link removed])
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Brazil’s government launched a crackdown on militias, but in Rio de Janeiro, the state police may be standing in the way. On November…
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** The Networks of Uruguay’s Most-Wanted Drug Trafficker ([link removed])
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Uruguay’s most prolific drug trafficker, Sebastian Marset, has strung together an intercontinental network of associates implicated in…
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** Colombia’s Total Peace May Be Unraveling ([link removed])
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After a week involving a high-profile kidnapping and alleged ceasefire violations by Colombia’s two largest armed groups, the future of President Gustavo Petro’s Total Peace policy is…
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** Organized Crime Changes Its Strategy in Colombia’s Regional Elections ([link removed])
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Although Colombia’s regional elections, held on October 29, were more peaceful than those held four years ago, they showed that…
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InSight Crime’s analysis of the links between the Surinamese government and transnational drug trafficking was picked up by the country’s main media outlets such as Suriname Herald ([link removed]) , GFC Nieuws ([link removed]) , and Suriname Nieuws ([link removed]) .
In response to the allegations made against him in leaked emails from the Colombian Attorney General’s Office and published by InSight Crime, Suriname’s Vice President Ronnie Brunswijk responded in an interview ([link removed]) .
“I have nothing to do with drugs,” he said. “Only untruths are being told.”
The wider #NarcoFiles project was also mentioned by Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro in an extensive post ([link removed]) on X, where he commented on the diversification of coca cultivation and cocaine production to different regions.
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** This Week's Criminal Profile: Sebastián Marset
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After barely avoiding ([link removed]) capture in Bolivia in July, Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset remains on the run. Authorities have linked Marset to organizing multi-ton shipments of cocaine from Bolivia to Paraguay and to Europe. His network extends to the highest levels of the Paraguayan government, with Uruguayan and Bolivian authorities also suspected of involvement.
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"Civilian gun export licenses to many countries have been paused for 90 days, with the federal government citing national security concerns…The World's Marco Werman talks with Mike Lasusa, a managing editor for InSight Crime, about the suspension and what it means for the underbelly of the US gun export market."
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