JIT ‘Jungle’: Close cooperation to stop illegal trafficking in protected wildlife species

27 October 2021|AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
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Working within a JIT significantly facilitated cross-border police and judicial cooperation but could not fully overcome certain legal and operational challenges:

  • difficulties with gathering evidence to meet national legal criteria of an OCG, to be able to prosecute for organised crime;
  • absence of a methodology to evaluate the damage caused by environmental crime, for the purpose of calculation of the illicit profit and recovery of illegal assets.

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