Friday, July 07, 2006

Canada to HQ Global Anti-Terror Finance Tracking Group

An AP newswire article, via Haaretz.com, reports that:

An international organization that tracks funding to terrorist groups will be headquartered in Canada, the country's finance minister announced Friday.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Toronto will house the headquarters of the Egmont Group - an organization which represents more than 100 financial investigation units.

The government will contribute C$5 million (US$4.5 million) over the next five years to help establish the group, which will analyze, investigate and prosecute terrorist financing and share financial intelligence on money laundering.

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