Implementations of the Collaboration in Combating Drugs in ASEAN Sample Clauses

Implementations of the Collaboration in Combating Drugs in ASEAN. The bilateral cooperation between the government of the Republic of Indonesia and the government of the Republic of the Philippines on combating the illicit drug trade in ASEAN was signed on the 9th of February 2015, between Indonesia’s BNN and the Philippines Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). This bilateral agreement between Indonesia and the Philippines, especially between each country’s anti-drug enforcement agencies, was aimed to increase cooperation in intelligence and best practice exchange between both countries (HUMAS BNN, 2019). Signed as an extension towards the 2010 MOU between the Indonesian National Police (POLRI) and the Philippines National Police (PNP) on Cooperation in Preventing and Combating Transnational Crimes (Nota Kesepahaman antara, 2010), this MOU was signed as a commitment for both countries to increase their effort on drug cartels, drug dealers, and others. Understanding that the illicit drug trade is a common source of funding for criminal organizations and/or other criminal activities such as terrorist organizations (Xxxxx, 2008), achieved through money laundering practices. Money laundering, according to the UNODC is defined as the method used by individuals and/or group of individuals to disguise the origins of their wealth and assets with the goal of removing the incriminating money trail (Introduction to Money-Laundering, n.d.), achieved through three general steps, placement or moving funds from direct association of criminal activities such as by transferring the money to an offshore bank account; layering or the process of disguising the money trail including but not limited to the moving of the money through multiple bank accounts, investing in offshore shell companies and others; and integration or the process of making the money available to the money launderer such as by mixing the laundered money with clean money and through the buying of properties and luxury goods (The Money-Laundering Cycle, n.d.; Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, & Xxxxxxx, 2019; Xxxxxxx, 2016). As such, the third annual bilateral meeting, conducted in November 2019 at Baguio city, focused more on the extension of cooperation towards a more comprehensive effort in combating the illicit drug trade. During this meeting, both BNN and PDEA agreed to extend their cooperation on combating the illicit drug trade to not only combating the international trade of illicit narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their precursors, but also on the prevention of money laun...
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