Interpol Develops Initiative Against Transnational Terrorism

On April 12, 2002 during a meeting of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) in Tabago, Luciano Gulielmini, Interpol, outlined Interpol?s initiative against transnational terrorism, which this article summarizes. Much of the Interpol work is in combating the financing of transnational terrorism and operating in cooperation with the establishment of new forms of financial information enforcement and the establishment of specialized agencies at a national level in the form of international and supranational cooperation. Interpol called on the Interpol national Center Bureaus (NBC) to act to record, and, where appropriate, report financial information connected with, arising from, related to, or resulting from terrorists transactions and other crimes, including suspicious and large currency transactions and large currency exchanges involving domestic and/or foreign currency. The rules governing the Interpol database and/or national database regulate the transmission of information. Interpol?s new recommendations also regulate the protections, transmission, and request procedures concerning information in the Interpol databases regulate the transmission of information. Interpol?s new recommendations also regulate the protection, transmission, and request procedures concerning information in the Interpol database.