China, ASEAN to Step up Law Enforcement Cooperation against Transnational crimes

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China, ASEAN to Step up Law Enforcement Cooperation against Transnational crimes

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China is attaching greater importance to its cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in cracking down on transnational crimes, as economic and political exchanges between the two sides boom.

China hopes to increase exchanges of intelligence information and cooperation in police professional training and law enforcement with ASEAN, said Meng Hongwei, Assistant to the Chinese Minister of Public Security at the China-ASEAN workshop on law enforcement cooperation against transnational crimes, which opened here on Monday.

"Police delegates and scholars from China and the ASEAN's ten members will introduce anti-crime laws and cooperative conventions for executing laws, which will favor the mutual understanding between law enforcement forces of both sides and help enhance the cooperation efficiency," Meng noted.

In recent years, Chinese public security departments have successfully cracked down on a series of serious criminal offenses and economic crimes as a result of sound partnership with law enforcement sections of ASEAN's member countries.

In April 2001, Chinese police captured the key drug trafficking boss Tan Xiaolin, who had smuggled 7.2 tons of heroin to China, through working in collaboration with Myanmar police. In December of the same year, Chinese police arrested racketeer Lan Tao, who absconded to Thailand with huge sums of illicit money, with assistance from Thai police. In April 2002, police from China, Myanmar and Thailand cracked a big international drug trafficking case, seizing over 350 kilograms of heroin.

In November 2002, China and ASEAN jointly released a declaration on cooperation in security issues, aiming to deepen the cooperation in combating international crimes, such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, sea-piracy, terrorism, weaponry smuggling, money laundering, international economic crimes and cyber crimes.

Meng acknowledged that China and ASEAN is sure to have still closer economic and personnel exchanges with the free trade zone set up in 2010. The Chinese Ministry of Public Security is expected to map out medium-term and long-term cooperation schemes with ASEAN soon to meet the needs of fighting transnational crimes under new economic and trading conditions.

The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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