THE Department of Public Safety and the Attorney General’s Office will be informing other countries about murder cases in which the victims were citizens of these nations.
Public Safety Commissioner Edward Camacho on Friday said the CNMI is not required by the Vienna Convention to inform the countries about such crimes.
However, he added, “we are going to do something that is probably never done before—we are going to also start informing the countries of the victims so that they can be aware that some of their own citizens abroad have become victims of such acts.”
Under the Vienna Convention, local authorities are required to contact the consulates of foreigners arrested for crimes in the commonwealth.
Camacho said DPS and AGO will continue providing some information to other countries regarding their citizens who are arrested for crimes.
Camacho said he recently received a telephone call from the U.S. State Department Representative Regional Office in Hawaii, asking him to provide assistance to the Bangladesh government regarding the murder of a poker attendant.
Last May 22, 33-year-old Mostofa Faruk Parves was murdered inside Candi’s Poker in Tanapag.
Camacho said DPS is waiting for the results of the examination of physical evidence sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C.
If the results are “positive,” Camacho said police are expected to arrest the suspect in the murder of Parves.
