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Costa Rica and Nicaragua coordinate prosecution of organized crime

Rio San Juan. Flickr: Flickwerk

The governments of Costa Rica and Nicaragua agreed Thursday to coordinate efforts to pursue jointly organized crime units who are mobilized across the border.

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Settlement reached in the Alcatel bribery case

by TCRN Staff The French company Alcatel is required to pay ¢5,600 million as a form of social redress to the community for the alleged payment of bribes to public officials. The Attorney General’s Office said Friday that a Criminal Court judge for the Second Judicial Circuit of San José endorsed, on 24 February, the [...]

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Money laundering ring broken up in Costa Rica

by TCRN Staff The authorities Wednesday broke up a Colombian drug money laundering network which, according to reports from the OIJ, the Drug Control Police (PCD), was composed of Colombians and Costa Ricans, that “laundered millions of dollars” in the past two years. The network was “the financial arm” of a powerful drug mafia organization, [...]

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