Fiji extends invitation to the Office of the Director of Counter Terrorism in New York

Fiji has extended an invitation to the Office of the Director of Counter Terrorism in New York to come to Fiji and look at National Security arrangements so that Fiji can ensure that we are consistent to combat the challenges that we are currently facing and the developing trends we have in terms of scams and money laundering.

Minister for Defence Inia Seruiratu highlighted this in parliament and while speaking on the ‘Report on Fiji Financial Intelligence Unit Annual Report 2016 gave an assurance that government and the Ministry is looking at the National Security structure that they have against the environment that we are in.

Seruiratu also revealed that in a meeting he had last week in New York it was highlighted that one of the major concerns about the transfer of funds is that it is linked to Foreign Terrorist Fighters.

SODELPA MP Viliame Gavoka says that he asked the Financial Intelligence Unit to look into the issue of scammers and highlighted a case where a person is promising people from his village in Nadroga employment in America and they are collecting money from the people to enable this.

SODELPA MP Viliame Gavoka

Gavoka also pointed out that the Financial Intelligence Unit is well developed today to identify and isolate some bank accounts overseas where they have instructed the banks not to send money to those accounts.

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