This week, an international project to disrupt the funding of terrorist activities brought together more than 50 experts in counter terrorism financing (CTF) at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. The conference’s key objective was to strengthen the international network of CTF investigation units, enhance public-private partnership cooperation and improve big data analysis to fight terrorist financing efficiently.

The conference is part of a two-year project coined BeCaNet (best practice, capacity building and networking initiative among public and private actors against terrorism financing). The BeCaNet initiative brings together public and private players and is directed by the German Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA). Official partners of BeCaNet are the police state security units from France (Sous-Direction Anti-Terroriste, SDAT), the Spanish National Police (Comisaría General de Información, CGI), the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Europol….No money for terror/ europol

Arend van Dam
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