Thursday, December 15, 2022

FINTRAC EXPOSES HOMEGROWN TERRORISM FINANCING

  Efforts by Canada's financial intelligence agency over the last three years uncovered activity related to homegrown terrorism, the bankrolling of international terrorist groups and attempts by Canadians to take part in extremism abroad.
 Transactions related to the financing of international terrorist groups consisted mainly of funds transfers to countries of concern for such activity including Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
   These transfers, often funded by cash deposits, were conducted by people in Canada using money service businesses in many cases, Fintrac found.
   Within the analyzed disclosures, the most frequently identified international terrorist group was Daesh, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, followed by Hezbollah, the alert says.

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