(Peoples Daily) The Panamanian government will step up the fight against crime organizations involved in human trafficking and other activities of organized crime, Panama’s Public Security Minister Jose Raul Mulino said on Wednesday.
Mulino said that the Panamanian authorities have drafted a new law, which recently was approved by the Cabinet Council, that will contribute to enhance the control and persecution of such illegal activities.
The project is aimed at leading to the creation of a series of new governmental actions against human trafficking, considered the third most profitable crime after surpassing drugs and arms trafficking.
The bill, which was drafted by a technical inter-institutional commission appointed by Panama’s President Ricardo Martinelli, is centered on the prevention, investigation and punishment of all the kinds of human trafficking and other parallel activities at both the national and international level.