Monday, April 11, 2016

“Al Capone model” to stop terrorist money – Göteborgs-Posten



The Tax Agency will take up the pursuit of suspected terrorist financiers. 77 persons directly or indirectly linked to the terrorist network should be under investigation, writes DN.

The National Tax bills now up the fight against so-called terrorist financiers, ie persons which in various ways to pay for terrorist activities, writes DN.

The idea is said to be using the so-called “Al Capone model”. It goes on to access criminals by turning against their economy.

– It is an investment in the context of our fight against organized crime, says Pia Bergman, Coordinator against organized crime to the newspaper.

now 61 investigations underway against persons who, according to Pia Bergman, belonging to the terror network, has ties to people in the terrorist network, or considered to be sympathizers. A further 16 cases should have been completed, many of which led to audit and upptaxeringar.

– So far we have applied to the persons in total over four million in taxes and penalties, says Pia Bergman told DN.

According to the magazine Sapo failed with the same mission that is now Tax Agency has undertaken.

to throttle money flows to iS, al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups are said to be a high priority in the global judicial cooperation. Although Sweden has in several stages stricter laws against the financing of terrorist crimes.

But despite the sharper tools and more resources said the police chase going shaky. In over ten years the Security Police have managed to uncover a single terrorist financier.

Security Service chief Anders Thornberg said welcome to other authorities now contribute to the fight against the Swedish terrorist networks.

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