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Interpol to Boost Training Vs
Interpol said Tuesday that it was bolstering its fight against corruption, establishing teams to track down ill-gotten gains and opening an academy to train experts on investigating and prosecuting such crimes.
Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said he would use the three-day Global Financial Crime Congress that opened in Bangkok Tuesday to drum up support for its anti-corruption drive and raise some of the euro15 million (US$20.3 million) for run the Anti-Corruption Academy for three years.
The academy is slated to open in 2009 in Vienna, Austria, and is billed as the first international school to focus on fighting corruption.
"'It's a long battle, this battle against corruption,"' Noble told a press conference.
"'But it has to be taken one step at a time,"' he said. "'One of the best ways to begin is set up an academy where you can bring together public and private sector experts to teach them to investigate corruption cases more successfully and to have sophisticated ways to trace the assets wherever they might be."'
Until recently, Noble said that Interpol had largely fought corruption on a "'case by case"' basis and that it lacked a "'strategy to combat the problem globally."'
But along with the training academy, Noble said Interpol was making corruption a priority by helping spread best anti-corruption practices, assist governments to develop anti-corruption legislation and create teams that can trace illegal assets.
Interpol, based in Lyon, France, is the world's largest international police organization, with 186 member countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime.
Noble said corruption will be among the key topics addressed by more than 200 law enforcement experts meeting at the United Nations offices in Bangkok. The meeting, also being sponsored by the U.N.'s Office on Drugs and Crime, will address other financial crimes such as money laundering, terrorism financing and Internet-related fraud.
He said delegates will also be reminded of the impact these crimes have on regular people.
"'There is a common misconception that financial crime has no real impact on people's day to day lives,"' he said.
"'But this is a serious underestimation of the reality and scale of the problem,"' he said. "'What community can say they are not affected by corruption? Who can say that financing of terrorism does not affect everyone? Financial crimes affect each and every one of us."'
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