US EditionInterpol-backed police make nearly 200 arrests in Amazon region gold mining sweep
The operation involved over 24,500 checks and seized cash, gold, mercury, firearms, and mining equipment to disrupt organized crime and environmental harm.
- On Thursday, police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname arrested nearly 200 people in their first joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining, authorities said.
- In recent years, illegal gold mining expanded as global gold prices climbed, pushing miners deeper into remote forest regions and contaminating waterways with toxic mercury, harming Indigenous communities.
- Carried out in December, the operation involved more than 24,500 checks on vehicles, boats and small riverside shops and led to seizures of counterfeit medicines, alcohol, cigarettes worth more than $40,000 and cylinders of mercury worth more than $60,000.
- Among those arrested were three men detained in Guyana suspected of gold smuggling and money laundering after officers seized unprocessed gold and about $590,000, while authorities stopped a bus carrying undocumented migrants including several minors, some suspected victims of forced labor or sexual exploitation.
- Operation Guyana Shield marked a significant step forward in cooperation among Amazon countries facing dense rainforest, long distances and porous borders, while Interpol Secretary General Valdecy Urquiza warned illegal gold mining is rapidly harming the environment and communities.
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Amazon Gold Mining Crackdown Nets Nearly 200 Arrests
What happens when four countries finally team up to tackle one of the Amazon’s dirtiest secrets? Almost 200 people found out this week.Police across Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname carried out their first coordinated cross-border crackdown on illegal gold mining — and the net was wide. Very wide. Authorities ran more than 24,000 checks in remote border zones, seizing cash, raw gold, mercury, guns, drugs and mining gear along the way.I…
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Interpol-backed police make nearly 200 arrests in Amazon region gold mining sweep
Police from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon.
A cross-border operation coordinated by Interpol has led to the dismantling of illegal gold mining networks, highlighting the extent of the phenomenon and its links to organised crime Nearly 200 people were arrested in December as part of a cross-border operation to combat illegal gold mining between Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname, announced on Thursday the International Police Coordination Agency Interpol.Operation "Guyana Shield", …
Almost 200 people were arrested in December during a cross-border operation against the illegal gold extraction between Brazil, Guyana, Guyana and Suriname, reported this Thursday to Interpol, an international police cooperation organization. Trump says that the United States has a secret weapon after reports of capture of Maduro: 'No one else has' Baptized by 'Guyana Shield', the operation — described as the "first transnational action' of this…
Members of major organised crime group arrested in Guyana
…as local Police partner with INTERPOL, neighbouring countries to crack down on illegal mining …198 arrested, cash, gold, mercury, guns, drugs seized At least three persons believed to be linked to a major regional organised crime group were arrested in Guyana during a joint operation involving several South American nations and led by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) last month. Ranks of the Guyana Police Force with the…
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