500 reports of money laundering crimes were dealt with by Dubai Police within 3 years

During the past three years, the Dubai Police General Command has dealt with more than 500 reports related to money laundering crimes, in cooperation with law enforcement agencies in several countries around the world, while the total value of financial investigations into crimes related to these reports has reached more than four billion dirhams. It included virtual currency assets worth 60 million dirhams.

The Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Lieutenant General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, explained that these efforts come within the framework of the UAE’s keenness, and under the directives of Lieutenant General His Highness Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, to intensify efforts in the field of combating money laundering crimes, and to work on Developing and strengthening relationships with various police agencies around the world for safer communities.

He added that the successes achieved in combating money laundering crimes are the result of the efforts made by all specialized work teams in the country and strategic partners at the local and international levels, pointing out the Dubai Police’s keenness on joint coordination through the Supreme Committee supervising the national strategy to confront money laundering and combat the financing of terrorism. And all strategic partners and police leadership at the level of the Ministry of Interior, to combat this type of crime by developing capabilities and capabilities and qualifying human cadres through specialized courses, including the international diploma specialized in Combating money laundering and terrorist financing crimes, which was launched in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and 116 affiliates from all agencies concerned with combating money laundering at the state level participated in it.

Lieutenant General Abdullah Al Marri explained that Dubai Police, in cooperation with partners, has achieved qualitative successes and achievements in the file of confronting money laundering crimes, in implementation of the UAE’s national strategy in this regard, as joint efforts, over the past three years, resulted in the exchange of 1,733 intelligence pieces of information with international partners. Through various communication channels, including Interpol, Europol, the Gulf Police Service, the European Network Specialized in Money Laundering Cases (Amoun), and liaison officers, in addition to To conclude many memorandums of understanding with counterparts in the field of law enforcement around the world.

In addition, Assistant Commander-in-Chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs, Major General Expert Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, confirmed that these results, in terms of arresting local and international criminals and seizing funds linked to money laundering crimes, come within the framework of the international efforts of Dubai Police to combat such crimes through its specialized teams, and harnessing the latest Artificial intelligence technologies in this field, along with close cooperation with law enforcement agencies globally.

He added that Dubai Police is keen to strengthen and support the state’s efforts in combating organized and cross-border crimes, including money laundering crimes, based on the principle of strengthening partnership with various governmental and semi-governmental agencies and the private sector, to ensure complementary roles, and to consolidate communication between all parties to achieve effective and influential results in Combating money laundering crimes, in all its forms.

In turn, the Acting Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigations and Investigations, Brigadier General Hareb Al Shamsi, explained that these numbers and achievements came as a result of a unified and integrated work system, which worked to monitor criminal activities that are considered evidence of crimes committed in money laundering crimes, which contributed to uncovering those involved in this crime. Type of cross-border crimes worldwide.

He added that all the results achieved reflect the efficiency of cooperation between the concerned authorities, such as the Dubai Public Prosecution, the Dubai Center for Economic Security, the Financial Information Unit, the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, the Ministry of Economy and Federal and Local Customs, the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, and the Commodities and Securities Authority.

Brigadier General Hareb Al Shamsi stated that the types of money laundering crimes varied between self-money laundering, money laundering through third parties, and money laundering using virtual assets, stressing that men combating money laundering crimes work around the clock in cooperation with strategic partners, from government and private agencies, to maintain security. economic, in a way that preserves national interests, and tightens the noose on the perpetrators of such crimes because of their negative repercussions on global economies.