Interpol and Treasury Cooperate on Combating Terrorist Financing

On December 11, 2001, Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble and U.S. Treasury under Secretary for Enforcement Jimmy Gurule announced new joint Treasury-Interpol cooperation to combat terrorist financing. The Interpol database would consolidate international and national list of terrorist financiers and make it available to police around the world to prevent the flow of funds to terrorist groups and to assist in criminal investigations. Messrs. Noble and Gurule said the terrorist financing data base could be operational within sixty days. The announcement illustrates the growing emergence of a network between national governments and international organizations to cooperate on combating the financing of terrorism.