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February 11, 2021 6:55 am [File Photo] The Fiji Independent Commission against Corruption has told the Fiji Law Society to avoid being a hindrance to the serious and complex issue of corruption. FICAC says corruption is a gateway for the occurrences of many other serious crimes including illegal drug importation, tax and customs breaches, fraud and serious financial crimes, money laundering, human trafficking, terrorism and terrorist financing. It says the impact of corruption on the economy an...

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Time for drug policy rethink 16 Editorial Bangkok Post editorial column published : 17 Jan 2021 at 04:00 16 The deaths of nine people last week from the overdose of a deadly "new" drug -- a combination of heroin, ketamine, methamphetamine and sleep medication -- is a shock. The bizarre deaths, so many in one day, were unprecedented. Six were under the jurisdiction of Phraya Krai police station, and the rest reported by the Sai Mai and Suthisan police stations. The term "k-nom...

Uganda: Leading Rights Lawyer Released On Bail Nicholas Opiyo was arrested last week, charged with money laundering. A leading human rights lawyer in Uganda, who was arrested last week and charged with money laundering, was released on bail on Wednesday, local media reported. On Dec. 22, Nicholas Opiyo was besieged along with three other lawyers and a human rights activist by a number of plain-clothed gunmen at Lamaro Restaurant in Kam...

>> maybe to you, and the political ramifications about all of this, there are a lot of people who to this day have no idea who jeffrey epstein is. does this have any sort of impact beyond washington and the political circles? >> secretary akosz ta has some troubled waters ahead. he knows that this is now being handled in new york. and the prosecution is being handled not in the trapping division but the corruption division. there are many cases that more will come, and i think the secretary knew...