Secretary General of INTERPOL Jürgen Stock recently welcomed the communique issued by the G7 Interior and Security Ministers meeting on 10 December.

After briefing the G7 meeting on cyber-enabled fraud and transnational organised crime, the Secretary General said: “We warmly welcome the G7’s commitment to fight transnational organised crime, an international crisis that is undermining the rule of law, communities and business around the world.

“As I set out, we are seeing a considerable increase in the volume and complexity of cyber-enabled fraud around the world. It is being perpetrated by polycriminal transnational organised crime groups, and includes both fraud operations and money laundering.

“We will only match this transnational organised crime through a complete global network – and so it is vital countries work together to tackle these threats internationally through organisations like the G7, but most of all through INTERPOL’s global policing systems.”

The Secretary General also highlighted INTERPOL’s work on Black Axe, an organised crime group based in West Africa, but now based in 40 so-called zones worldwide using cyber-enabled criminal activities.

The G7 Interior and Security Ministers meeting was attended by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as INTERPOL and the EU. The meeting was hosted by Japan in the city of Mito, Ibaraki.