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Access To Interpol’s Database’ll Enable Us Profile Politicians, Money Laundering Suspects – ICPC 

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has said the Commission will utilize access granted to it to the database of the International Police (Interpol) in profiling Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), and money laundering and illicit financial flows suspects.

A statement by ICPC spokesperson, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua Thursday, said the chairman of the ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye (SAN), made this known at the end of a meeting by Heads of Nigerian Law Enforcement Agencies with top officials of Interpol in Lyon, France.

The Nigerian delegation to Interpol which was made up of top officials of the National Central Bureau Abuja (NCBA), Nigeria Police, Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP) and the ICPC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Interpol which granted the law enforcement agencies access to the organisation’s databases

At the meeting, the ICPC boss discussed how the anti-corruption agency and the country could take advantage of the Interpol database in profiling suspects.

“The Commission will develop the habit of issuing notices especially on high profile suspects. Such notices will be seen globally on PEPs in particular”,  Prof. Owasanoye said.

Owasanoye also disclosed that the ICPC would join the Global Focal Point Network coordinated by Interpol as part of measures to tighten the noose around corrupt and criminal persons.

The Interpol is expected to support the law enforcement agencies in Nigeria through strengthening of information sharing, utilisation of the organisation’s database of global suspects, and prevention of incursion and influx of migrant terrorist fighters into Nigeria.

The Interpol briefed the Nigerian delegation on Operation Gemini, a special project focusing on trans-border organised crime involving migration, human trafficking, drug trafficking corruption and financial crimes.

The international police also held special sessions with the delegation which were devoted to international and regional cooperation in law enforcement, operational methods of interpol and strategies for data and informational sharing, Interpol policing capabilities, role of National Central Bureau (NCB) in Nigeria, and Nigeria Border Management strategies, integration of Nigeria Law Enforcement Databases with Interpol NCB.

Under the MoU signed with the Interpol, the Nigerian law enforcement agencies will have unrestricted access to global criminal databases.

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