Releases<\/p>\n\n\n
The five- day advance training programme which held at the EFCC Academy, Karu, is a product of the\u00a0Strengthening Anti-Money Laundering Capacities\u00a0in\u00a0West\u00a0Africa {SAMWA}\u00a0Project, an initiative of\u00a0GIABA and the European Union\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
The course is aimed at encouraging anti-money laundering and proactive financial investigations among investigators, judicial officers and analysts.<\/p>\n\n\n
The training brought select officers up to speed on the new trends of money laundering, effectiveness of existing strategies against money laundering and terrorism financing and ways of strengthening the fight against the menace. <\/p>\n\n\n
Participants were drawn from the EFCC, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, {NAPTIP}, the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit {NFIU}, the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering {SCUML}, Nigeria Immigration Service, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission {ICPC},Nigeria Customs Service and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency {NDLEA}.<\/p>\n\n\n
Delivering the first lecture entitled \u201cStrategic Approach for Combating Criminal Organizations\u201d, the Head, Counterterrorist Financing Unit, NFIU, Ibrahim Ditse, emphasized that the objective of the training was to deepen the participants\u2019 knowledge of the relationship between different forms of organized crime and the strategic model for combating it.<\/p>\n\n\n
In her paper entitled\u00a0\u201cNational Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Risk Assessment\u201d, the Head, External Corporation, EFCC,\u00a0Hadiza\u00a0GamawaZubairu,\u00a0stressed\u00a0the dangers of money laundering and terrorism financing and urged government and all stakeholders to put in place actions necessary to curb the crime, adding\u00a0that until organizations used to launder money take necessary actions, the problem of money laundering and terrorism financing will continue to plague Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n
The\u00a0training which\u00a0is a product\u00a0of the\u00a0partnership\u00a0among the EFCC, GIABA and EU, featured\u00a0practical\u00a0and\u00a0technical\u00a0exercises on enhancing the fight against money laundering\u00a0and terrorism financing in\u00a0West\u00a0Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Releases As part of its efforts \u00a0aimed at enhancing the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing in West Africa, the Inter Governmental Action against Money laundering in West Africa, GIABA, between Monday September 23 and Friday September 27, 2019 exposed officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to latest Anti-Money Laundering and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}