The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has taken delivery of an application that would enhance intelligence sharing in the tracking of organised crime including money laundering and terrorism-financing.
Acting Spokesman of the commission, Mr. Tony Orilade, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to him, the application which was donated by the International Criminal Police Organisation, Interpol, comprised a database to be supervised by the National Central Bureau, NCB, which is an interface between Interpol and national law enforcement agencies of countries through a i24/7 Gemini Project global communications system.
Orilade explained that the Interpol’s Project Officer, Noha Amer, who led a delegation of the global police to the commission disclosed that the United States was funding the project in four African countries namely, Nigeria, Niger, Mali and Libya.
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He further explained that the aim of the project “is to detect and interdict stolen and illicit funds by organised criminals, mainly in the area of terrorism-financing, as it happened in Libya.”
Amer explained that the project would take responsibility for the training of the commission’s operatives on programmes that included Interpol policing capabilities and standard operations.
“Within the commission, the application will be managed by its Information and Communications Technology Department.
“The training will commence after the installation of the NCB database,” Orilade said.
