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- Operation ‘Green Justice’ was to target the regional network of environmental criminal activities in the Amazon Basin
DUBAI: A UAE-led operation has uncovered vast environmental crimes in the Amazon basin, with $32 million worth of items seized and 25 suspects arrested.
Operation “Green Justice” targeted regional criminal networks in the Amazon basin.
It dealt a serious blow to organized crime groups in the area, state-run WAM reported.
Regional law enforcement agencies from the UAE, Brazil, Peru and Colombia, along with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the Environmental Systems Research Institute took part in the operation.
The mission, also coordinated by the International Initiative of Law Enforcement for Climate, seized 2.4 tonnes of items related to illegal wildlife and marine catches, 37 illegal fishing items, 229 illegal mining items and more than 10,498 cubic meters of illicitly cut wood. The illegal goods were estimated to be worth more than $32 million.
As a result of the operation, 25 suspects were charged with a range of environmental crimes, WAM said.