Giovanni Ferrari
Appointed as General Manager of the Colón Free Zone Administration in 2019 by the administration of President Laurentino Cortizo. Previously worked as the CEO of Farmazona S.A. before taking public…
Free Trade Zones and Transnational Crime
Piotr Stryszowski
Piotr Stryszowski is Head of Unit at the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate, where he leads the Working Party on Countering Illicit Trade. In this role, he oversees research on…
Juan Jose ́ Vides
Juan José Vides served as the Executive Director of the Honduran Customs Administration (Aduanas Honduras), taking office around August 2019. He led modernization efforts, regional customs integration, and anti-smuggling strategies…
18th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum – Free Trade Zones And Transnational Crime
He then later expressed that the Colon Free Trade Zone has been marked as an area of illicit activity. Current measures in place are:
18th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum – Free Trade Zones And Transnational Crime
Vides defined illicit commerce as contraband, customs fraud, piracy corruption, and bribery. He then later went on saying that 244 tons of undeclared substances were seized in April 2021 alone….
