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Updated February 10, 2003 Justice, Rule of
Law and Security of the Individual Inter American Convention on
Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
The Convention was adopted in Nassau, the Bahamas in
1992 during the OAS General Assembly and it entered into
effect four years later.
This Convention establishes the dispositions in which
the states shall render to one another mutual assistance in
criminal matters. The assistance will be based on cooperation
requests among the entities in charge of investigations or
prosecution in each required State. The assistance may include
the notification of resolutions and sentences, testimonies or
declaration of people or witnesses, the immobilization of
assets, the embargo of goods, the exhibition of judicial
documents and the transfer of detainees, among others. To date, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, United States,
Granada, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela have ratified
the Convention. Guatemala signed the Convention on September
19th, 2002 and it will enter into force in this
country once it is ratified. For more information on the Inter American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, please click here.
Updated February 10, 2003 |