US lauds Bangladesh's anti-terrorism efforts
USA Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller has got praised Bangladesh for continuing to strengthen anti-terrorism efforts over many fronts.
He mentioned Bangladesh's robust anti-money laundering measures, standing up additional Anti-Terrorism Tribunals around the united states, and expanding digital data efforts to research and prosecute terrorist crimes appearing committed with pcs and through digital media.
The US Ambassador, while addressing at a webinar, reaffirmed the United Claims’ commitment to assisting Bangladesh in its efforts.
Since 2016, america has obligated over $63.5 million cumulatively for counterterrorism assistance in Bangladesh, like the current webinar series made available from OPDAT, said the united states Embassy in Dhaka on Monday.
The other day, the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Schooling (DOJ-OPDAT) introduced a three-portion webinar series entitled “Criminal Influences on the Dark Net and in the application of Cryptocurrency.”
Almost 50 prosecutors, investigators, judges, financial analysts, and government officials from Bangladesh met virtually via an interactive online platform to understand how criminal organizations utilize the dark web and cryptocurrency to conduct drug trafficking, money laundering, and different nefarious activities.
The instructor for the course may be the Section of Justice’s John Ghose, who's the International Pc Hacking and Intellectual Real estate Attorney for the Dark Web and Cryptocurrency.
USA Ambassador Earl Miller opened the webinar series, praising police heroes, incorporating all participants, who bravely and selflessly meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He noted they “have my value, admiration, and gratitude for the difficult and dangerous work [they] do so perfectly.”
The first session of the series, entitled “Combating Criminal Dark Web Marketplaces through the COVID-19 Pandemic,” focused on how criminals utilize the dark web, through anonymous browsers and hidden services, to capitalize on the anxiety caused by the pandemic.
For example, criminals are using the dark web to market fake test packages, substandard personal protection devices, artificial vaccines and treatment drugs, and even bloodstream allegedly carrying coronavirus antibodies, said the united states Embassy.
Through the session, participants discovered ways to detect and interrupt such reprehensible activities.
The second and third sessions of the series will give attention to cryptocurrency - against the law to use or have in Bangladesh - as a car for payments at dark web marketplaces.
The next session entitled “Introduction to Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology” will address cryptocurrency and blockchain fundamentals.
Deputy Secretary Sheikh Golam Mahbub from Bangladesh’s Ministry of Laws, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs, is likely to deliver opening remarks in the session.
The 3rd session entitled “Advanced Cryptocurrency - Tracing Cryptocurrency to create Cases,” will address approaches for de-anonymizing cryptocurrency transactions.
Abu Hena Mohd. Razee Hassan, the top of the Bangladesh Financial Cleverness Unit (BFIU), is expected to deliver opening remarks at the session.
Conducting the three-part “Criminal Influences about the Dark Net and in using Cryptocurrency” webinar series is just among the many ways the United States works at the same time with the federal government of Bangladesh to deal with terrorism and transnational criminal offense in the region, in line with the US Embassy.
Understanding cryptocurrency and just how terrorists and transnational criminal networks utilize it due to its anonymity and decentralized, nationless attributes, and how to detect and interrupt its consumption, will be as necessary to the Bangladeshi justice sector as it is to the U.S. justice sector in fighting the financing of terrorism and transnational crimes, it said.
