Interpol highlights link between counterfitting and terrorism

Link: The Secretary General of Interpol, the international police network, stated that Interpol believes there is a significant link between couterfitting and funding of terrorism. The Secretary expressed suprise that no one has asked him what Interpol is doing to fight the problem.

“What I find absolutely amazing is that there is this multi-billion-dollar crime problem that affects the safety of people, the security of governments, that is connected to organised crime, drug trafficking and terrorism. And no one, no one pressures me as secretary-general of Interpol to say what I am doing to fight this problem. No one.”

“I want governments to care about the problem of intellectual property crime. I want governments to demand that law enforcement agencies account for how their resources are deployed to fight this problem.”

Interpol recently hosted the first Global Conference on Combatting Counterfitting with the World Customs Organization (WCO).

WCO has an extensive web site for the Conference.

The Interpol web site claims that counterfeitting accounts for more than seven per cent of global trade annually. That buys a lot of terrorism.