In 2005, he was named director of revenue and customs prosecutions, successfully prosecuting money-laundering groups and cigarette smugglers.
40 We extracted suspected crimes from the Register of People Suspected of Offences and included all people suspected of crime after a completed investigation by police, the customs authority, or the prosecution service.
But it also stipulates that improper behaviour that flouts local customs may lead to fines, prosecution or deportation.
Prosecution of the custom is rare throughout West Africa.
Guatemala's Congress lifted President Otto Perez Molina's immunity Tuesday, opening the possibility of prosecution in connection with a widening customs corruption scandal that has rocked his administration and the country's political system.
Although the custom had no basis in law and frequently resulted in prosecution, particularly from the mid-19th century onwards, the attitude of the authorities was equivocal.
Laws like Kenya's Children Act (prohibiting FGC) have little effect on the custom amongst indigenous communities where members fear cultural exclusion more than prosecution.
His father, Umer, was released after his case resulted in a hung jury, and the prosecution decided not to retry him after he pleaded guilty to an unrelated customs charge.
For all the barriers placed to prosecution, and separating the branches of government, English law still had ancient and formidable customs of authority.
But the CPS is now merging with the Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office and henceforth there will be one prosecution service for a much wider range of investigating bodies, including not only the police but also the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and the newly formed UK Border Agency.
Yet we also see customs and police officials bribed, logging and hunting licences forged, and poachers and wildlife traffickers set free due to obstructed prosecutions.
