Influencing

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Influencing

• European Arrest Warrant
• Joint Investigation Teams
• Terrorism
• JHA Council Decisions of December 2002 March
  2004
• Annual Report 2003
• Eurojust to Report to JHA Council by end May 2004
• Decisions on Jurisdiction
• Working with Third States
• Need for clarity a joined-up approach
• Eurojust, EJN, Europol, PCTF, OLAF

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Key Partners

• Domestic Competent Authorities
• EJN (European Judicial Network)
• Europol
• Liaison Magistrates
• OLAF (Office pour la Lutte Anti-Fraude)
• EU Candidate Countries
• Other Countries Contact Points
• USA, Norway, Canada, Switzerland, etc.

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Casework Examples

• Two Human Trafficking Cases
• Case A - UK France
• Case B - France Spain Bulgaria Albania

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Case A (i)

• Human trafficking case
• Sophisticated network moving people from Indian
  sub-continent into the EU
• Collection point in France for movement to the UK
  
• Separate enquiries in France and in England

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Human Trafficking Case A
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Case A (ii)

• UK and France investigators/prosecutors met at
  Eurojust in The Hague on 4 November
• Discussed their linked investigations
• in France
• Orcriest - Commissioner and Police Captain and
• Examining magistrate from Bobigny in Paris
• in England
• NCS - Telford
• CPS at Casework Directorate in Birmingham

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Case A (iii)

• Objectives
• Ensure effective co-ordination of both cases
• Facilitate execution of Letters of Request
• develop future strategy and actions
• Overview of both enquiries
• Exchange of information and state of play on
  investigations in each jurisdiction
• Preparation of draft letter of request
• Evidential requirements

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Case A (iv)

• Evidential requirements
• Did draft request meet French legal criteria
• the form the material was to be sent to UK
• telephone billing and subscriber checks
• Possibility of English investigators using French
  telephone intercept material as evidence in the
  English prosecution

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Case A (v)

• Also agreed
• Arrests to take place in France on agreed date
• Interviews of any defendants to take place in
  England or France English and French
  investigators to be present
• Further meeting at Eurojust in early 2004 to
  exchange information on progress and to decide on
  any future co-operation and action

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Human Trafficking Case B
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Case B

• Involving France (Paris Perpignan) and
  Barcelona in Spain and trafficking of women
  (mainly minors) for prostitution from Romania by
  Albanian crime gangs
• Facilitation of evidence collection in Romania
  and Albania
• Evidence relating to forgery and use of false
  French passports
• Denunciation of prosecution by the Romanian
  authorities

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The Future ?

• Medium Term and Long Term Plans
• Focus key criminal conduct cross-border
• Regular Meetings - Operational Strategic
• Terrorism, Trafficking Human Beings Drugs,
  Fraud Money Laundering
• Joint Investigation Teams - a monitoring role ?
• Follow up suggestions made at meetings
• No enough to bring people together - must add
  value
• Work to remove MLA Blockages
• Must deliver good results consistently
• not just good stories

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- The Role and Work of Eurojust - Combating
International Crime and Adding Value

• Mike Kennedy
• President of the College of Eurojust
• National Member for the United Kingdom

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