{"id":79668,"date":"2017-03-13T15:54:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T15:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=68c67f92467bc72ef773c0d9992ad38a"},"modified":"2017-03-13T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T15:54:05","slug":"news-story-agreement-with-panama-on-tackling-serious-and-organised-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79668","title":{"rendered":"News story: Agreement with Panama on tackling serious and organised crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The UK has signed an agreement with Panama for the 2 countries to work more closely than ever to combat the threat posed by serious and organised crime.<\/p>\n<p>The Security Minister, Ben Wallace, met Jonattan Del Rosario, Deputy Minister for Public Security in Panama, this week to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (<abbr title=\"Memorandum of Understanding\">MOU<\/abbr>) which will ensure closer cooperation in this area.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement makes clear that the UK and Panama are committed to working together on serious and organised crime, with the 2 nations sharing information and best practice on issues such as intelligence collection, development and analysis, money laundering, port security and criminal justice.<\/p>\n<p>Security Minister Ben Wallace said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am delighted that we have laid the foundations for a strong partnership with such an important country in the region. There are strong benefits for both countries in working together and I believe this <abbr title=\"Memorandum of Understanding\">MOU<\/abbr> will aid our joint fight against drug smugglers, money launderers and serious criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Serious and organised crime costs the UK \u00a324 billion a year and the UK has committed to taking a leading role to tackle it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It was a great opportunity to meet with Deputy Minister Jonattan Del Rosario, and to explore future opportunities for both our countries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to this <abbr title=\"Memorandum of Understanding\">MOU<\/abbr>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/criminal-finances-bill\">Criminal Finances Bill<\/a>, which is currently going through Parliament, will significantly improve the UK\u2019s ability to tackle money laundering and corruption, recover the proceeds of crime and counter terrorist financing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Security Minister has signed an agreement with Panama on tackling serious and organised crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}