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### Viewing cable 06SANJOSE2671, COSTA RICA MINI-DUBLIN GROUP REPORT

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06SANJOSE2671 | 2006-11-24 13:01 | 2011-03-08 16:04 | UNCLASSIFIED | Embassy San Jose

Appears in these articles:
http://www.nacion.com/2011-03-06/Investigacion/NotasDestacadas/Investigacion2702320.aspx
http://www.nacion.com/2011-03-06/Investigacion/NotaPrincipal/Investigacion2702324.aspx
http://www.nacion.com/2011-03-06/Investigacion/NotasSecundarias/Investigacion2702325.aspx
http://www.nacion.com/2011-03-06/Investigacion/NotasSecundarias/Investigacion2702326.aspx
http://www.nacion.com/2011-03-06/Investigacion/NotasSecundarias/Investigacion2702327.aspx

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    UNCLAS SAN JOSE 002671

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    FOR INL/PC MCKECHNIE AND INL/LP MARTIN

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: SNAR PREL KCRM CS
    SUBJECT: COSTA RICA MINI-DUBLIN GROUP REPORT

    REF: STATE 179116

    ¶1.  Summary:  Post convened a mini-Dublin Group meeting on
    November 17, 2006 with representatives of the embassies of
    Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the
    Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.  The U.S.
    counternarcotics program remains the largest among Dublin
    Group members in Costa Rica.  End Summary.

    Drug Situation and Policy Initiatives
    -------------------------------------
    ¶2. Costa Rica continues to serve as a transit point for
    illegal narcotics destined for the United States and Europe
    from production sites in South America.  Costa Rica's
    geographic position astride important sea routes, its large
    maritime area (10 times larger that its land mass), and its
    short distance from Colombia combine to make the country a
    convenient logistics platform for trafficking organizations
    moving narcotics, primarily to the United States.

    ¶3. Narcotics continue to be shipped through Costa Rican
    territory by land, sea, and air.  The Pan-American Highway
    serves as a major thoroughfare for large land shipments of
    illicit drugs and other contraband while a lack of detection
    and enforcement resources at Costa Rica's international
    airports provide opportunities for smuggling drugs--notably
    heroin, but increasingly cocaine through the use of
    "mules"--to the United States and Europe.  Use of package
    couriers such as DHL for smuggling small narcotics shipments
    was a concern to European members of the group.  London,
    Madrid, and Amsterdam were identified as primary destinations
    for Costa Rican "mules" due to lack of visa requirements and
    direct air connections.  All participants agreed that the use
    of Costa Rican flagged fishing vessels to smuggle narcotics
    and to refuel "go-fast" boats is a growing problem.
    According to the Canadian representative, cocaine smuggling
    is common enough within the region's fishing fleets that it
    is referred to as "white lobster."

    ¶4. Costa Rican authorities had seized a record 7,950
    kilograms of cocaine as of November 2006.  Costa Rican
    officials have increased their seizures of cocaine every year
    since 2001.  (Note: 2006 statistics on cocaine seizures do
    not include neaQ 17 metric tons seized at sea by U.S.
    assets under the terms of the bilateral maritime
    counternarcotics agreement.)  The drug control police (PCD in
    Spanish) launched a major offensive against small-time drug
    dealers and have increased seizures of crack cocaine to date
    by a factor of six (111,698 "rocks" compared to just over
    18,000 for all of 2005).  Destruction of marijuana plants
    dropped substantially, however, in 2006 to 353,500 plants
    from over one million in 2005.  In every other category the
    PCD dramatically increased seizures: 2,464 kilograms of
    marijuana (881 in 2005), 60.6 kilograms of heroin (49.38 in
    2005), and 5,963 tablets of MDMA/Ecstasy in 2006 compared to
    only 41 tablets in 2005.  Costa Rican authorities seized over
    $4 million in suspect currency as opposed to $850,000 in 2005.

    ¶5. Costa Rican officials continue to demonstrate
    professionalism and reliability as partners with the
    international community in combating narcotics trafficking.
    Costa Rica aggressively investigated allegations of internal
    corruption and successfully prosecuted officials in 2006.
    U.S. law enforcement agencies consider the public security
    forces and judicial officials to be full partners in
    counternarcotics investigations and operations.

    ¶6. Costa Rica is compliant with all UN drug conventions and
    continues to implement its comprehensive national drug plan,
    drafted in 2003.  Costa Rica has strict controls on precursor
    chemicals, although money laundering legislation has
    significant loopholes.  There were no legislative initiatives
    to address these loopholes in 2006, nor were there
    significant changes to Costa Rica's counternarcotics policies
    or institutions beyond a change in leadership of the Costa
    Rican drug institute (ICD in Spanish).  Other policy
    initiatives include ongoing but still unsuccessful efforts to
    bring the multilateral "Agreement Concerning Cooperation in
    Suppressing Illicit Maritime and Aeronautical Trafficking in
    Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances in the Caribbean
    Area" into force.  Costa Rica and the Netherlands are joint
    sponsors of the agreement but neither country has yet
    ratified.  Dublin Group members who have ratified the
    agreement include the United States and United Kingdom.  The
    U.K. representative mentioned a EU-Latin American
    intelligence sharing initiative that has produced two
    meetings to date and the French representative said that a
    similar effort is currently underway in Colombia involving
    law enforcement liaison officers throughout the region.

    External Assistance
    -------------------
    ¶7.  The United States continues to be the largest donor of
    counternarcotics assistance among Dublin Group members in
    Costa Rica.  Total U.S. counternarcotics assistance to the
    government of Costa Rica in 2006 was around $400,000
    including training, equipment, conferences, and seminars.
    Besides the U.S. mission, only the French and Spanish
    embassies maintain a full-time law enforcement presence in
    Costa Rica.

    Levels/Examples of Cooperation
    ------------------------------
    ¶8. The French embassy finances the participation of 12 -15
    Costa Rican officials per year in regional training courses
    as well as providing advice and assistance related to
    narcotics trafficking, organized crime, dignitary protection,
    and crisis management.  Currently, the French police attache
    in San Jose also covers Panama.  Beginning next year, this
    attache will cover all of Central America, including Panama
    (further diffusing French law enforcement attention
    throughout the region).  The German, Canadian, Italian and
    British embassies have police attaches who cover Costa Rica
    from other countries in the region.  The Netherlands provided
    $10,000 in computer training to police officials in 2006.
    Canada provided a regional seminar for narcotics police
    through the OAS/CICAD and plans a similar event in Panama
    next year.  Belgium conducted occasional counternarcotics
    patrols (at times jointly with the Dutch) in the Caribbean
    and the French Navy intercepted two Panamanian vessels
    carrying multi-ton loads of cocaine during 2006.

    Recommendations
    --------------
    ¶9. All the participants agreed again this year to recommend
    that the Costa Rican government take urgent action to remedy
    serious vulnerabilities in the area of money laundering.  We
    agreed to look for opportunities to jointly and separately
    urge the government to close loopholes in anti-money
    laundering legislation.  Participants also agreed that we
    should continue to focus our shrinking resources on helping
    Costa Rica to help itself by improving inter-institutional
    cooperation within the GOCR.

    Follow Up
    ---------

    ¶10. The government of Costa Rica took no action in 2006 to
    follow up on similar money laundering recommendations made by
    the members of the Dublin Group the year before.
    FRISBIE

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