2.5 National and International Mechanisms for Combating Organized Crime

The international machinery:1. The UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo 2000) — the framework: the criminalisation duties (the participation, the laundering, the corruption), the cooperation duties (the mutual legal assistance, the extradition), the protocol trio (the trafficking in persons; the migrant smuggling; the firearms).2. The UN Convention against Corruption (Merida 2003) — the corruption's-and-assets' regime (the recovery's faces).3. The single-issue treaties — the drug conventions (the 1961-1971-1988 trio), the CITES (the wildlife), the anti-terrorism instruments (the sector's conventions).4. The bodies — UNODC (the Vienna machinery), INTERPOL (the police cooperation), the FATF (the financial standards), the regional faces (SAARC's conventions — the terrorism-and- trafficking instruments of the earlier courses). The national machinery (Nepal):5. The statutes — the Criminal Code 2074's organised faces (the conspiracy, the gang crimes); the specific Acts (the Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act 2033; the Human Trafficking and Transportation (Control) Act 2064; the Asset (Money) Laundering Prevention Act 2064; the Electronic Transactions Act 2063's cyber faces; the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 2029's wildlife faces; the Some Public (Crime and Punishment) Act 2027's public-order faces) — the dedicated organised-crime statute long-debated (the legislative gap the honest note records).6. The agencies — the Nepal Police's central bureaus (the CIB — the Central Investigation Bureau's organised-and-economic faces; the drug-and-trafficking cells); the Department ofMoney Laundering Investigation (DMLI); the Financial Information…