Specialized training against illicit trade — First edition, Bogotá, Colombia
Held on November 9–10, 2022, in Bogotá, Colombia.
The program’s first edition, focused on tobacco industry products and held in Bogotá on November 9–10, trained officials from the Fiscal and Customs Police (POLFA), the special POLFA–HSI investigation group, prosecutors and investigators from the Attorney General’s Tax Crime Directorate, DIAN customs, enforcement and criminal-investigation units, and international cooperation agencies.
The program was sponsored by Philip Morris International and regionally coordinated by Strategos BIP as part of the third round of PMI IMPACT. It received support from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and academic endorsement from Ecuador’s Universidad Hemisferios and the United Nations University for Peace.
The training produced interagency commitments with a transnational focus in the following areas:
Develop strategies for sharing information.
Hold interagency cooperation working groups involving institutions from different countries.
Participate in the GIR meeting on December 1 of this year.
Develop collaborative interagency work to combat illicit trade in the region.
Attendees:
Dr. Ingrid Díaz
Director of Customs Management, DIAN
Brigadier General (Ret.) Juan Carlos Buitrago Arias
Founder & CEO, Strategos BIP
Brigadier General Wilson Javier González Delgadillo
Director of Traffic and Transportation, Colombian National Police
Special Agent Daniel Villalva
Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Dr. María Carolina Uribe
Director of the Andean Cluster—Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru—Philip Morris International
Dr. María Fernanda Román
Director of the School of Government, Universidad Hemisferios, Ecuador
Dr. Juan Carlos Sainz Borgo
Dean of the University for Peace, Costa Rica
Dr. Gustavo Omaña
President of the Venezuelan Maritime Law Association
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