OIJ: offensive against bands of
delinquents
Money Laundering, Extortion,
Narcotics and Robbery of Cars worry the authorities
Translated from
WORRIED.
Red Jorge, director of the OIJ, indicated that the delinquents
are more violent and their acts are planned. For that reason, a
series of new policies was designed to fight it.
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The judicial police will make a change
in the investigations as of the 2003 to fortify the fight against
organized crime.
MONEY
OIJ hopes to receive more money the next year |
The plan contemplates the reconstruction of sections, the impulse of
legal reforms and the creation of a Money Laundering Unit as of
January.
To that effect, a group of agents
will be reassigned of his present positions to make up a team that
will try to fight the actions of several organized bands.
The positions left by those agents
will not be filled.
"This does not mean that
conventional crimes no longer will be investigated, that the work
will be made through criminal analysts", explained Red Jorge,
director of the Organism of Investigacion Judicial (OIJ).
The police offensive tries to resist
the action of groups related to frauds, extortions, the robbery of
vehicles, the sexual exploitation and assaults.
In addition, drug traffickers, and
murder for hire (hitmen) trouble the authorities.
For the authorities these types of
crimes are more frequent and/or they are executed with a greater
degree of violence.
The combination of national
delinquents with foreigners has been an influential factor in this
phenomenon, in agreement with Red.
One of the measures that the OIJ will
ask of the Government will be to modify the migratory policies to
avoid the entrance of more gangster delinquents.
Also legal reforms will set out to
the Congress to extend the telephone interventions in investigations
by extortions and the robbery of vehicles.
Other initiatives will look for a
greater relation with municipalities to control plus some sites as
body and paint shops.
Against laundering
Due the constant cases and information of international authorities,
the OIJ decided to create the first Money Laundering Unit.
The police group will have two
auditor-investigators that will be in charge of the operative part.
According to Red, we cannot deny the
fact that there are several money laundering operations here.
The Embassy of the United States in
Costa Rica will offer support to the OIJ in the training of
officials and economic support.
Another change will occur with the
searches of robbery of cars, because a unit was created for the Gran
Metropolitan Area (GAM) - which covers Paraiso in Cartago to San
Ramon in Alajuela -.
This criminal activity is one in
which the organized crime is more active in.
This year (2002) the bands that
operate at in the Gran Metropolitan Area (GAM), robbed 3,921
vehicles. That is to say, of almost 11 cars per day.
The other crime that will be pursued
with force is sexual exploitation, of which they appeared 74
denunciations this year n the capital.
For the OIJ, behind this are networks
that operate in the country and the in the world. The searches will
be at hotels, casinos and night clubs, among other sites.
As far as the professional (hitmen)
homicides, in the 2002, five people died, among them three
Colombians.
According to Red, the success of the
plan will occur while the OIJ remains in the Judicial Power and
continues the specialization of the police.
Modern delinquency
organized crime uses all the
technology that exists in the world.
What is the organized crime?
It is all that criminal activity that is committed in group, under
strict planning, with violence and that uses a series of tools to
commit its misdeeds without being discovered.
A clear example is some car theft
bands that operate in the country. The police determined that within
these groups there are those that rob the car, hide it, disguise it
(they change the characteristics of the car), "they twin
it" and sell it or remove it from the country.
According to the police, organized
crime uses all the technology available. Cellular telephone, beepers
and the Internet form a part of these tools.
In spite of the difficulty to put
these groups out of action, the OIJ considers that with the
reconstruction that starts in January they will obtain results.
In its own words
The
investigations into money laundering in the country are deficient.
There is an emptiness at this moment, lack of investigators in the
street.
There are many undesirable foreigners
in the country; we must improve the immigration policies.
Red Jorge
Director of the OIJ
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