From Creeping Sharia:
Canada: Terrorist financing investigations up 40%
Posted on November 20, 2010 by creeping
via Terrorist financing cases up sharply: report. h/t @DominionPundit
Suspected terrorist financing cases are increasing sharply in Canada, according to the annual report by the federal financial intelligence unit.
FINTRAC investigated 73 such cases in fiscal 2009-10, a 40-per-cent increase from the previous year.
The reason for the jump is unclear. Jeanne Flemming, director of the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, suspects police and security agencies are placing greater investigative value on financial transactions, producing greater demand for FINTRAC’s “products.”
The movement of money and the trail it leaves “is increasingly being recognized as a critical tool in terrorist financing,” Flemming said during an interview Friday, adding most of the terrorism-related investigations were requested by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
FINTRAC, along with Australia’s financial intelligence unit are the only major western agencies that have the power to collect and analyse international electronic funds transfer reports involving transactions of $10,000 or more.
Seventy-seven per cent of the suspected terrorist-financing cases forwarded to CSIS in recent years have resulted from FINTRAC’s ability to monitor wire transfers.
The reason is unclear? The more terrorist supporters you allow into your country, or are recruited to support jihad, the more people to finance it
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