
Complex Asian Crime Symposium 2006
Lyon, France
Description of Event:
This training symposium was hosted by Interpol, and expands the geographic and topical coverage to include organized crime--and its links to terrorism--from Suez to Tokyo. Experts from academia and national police agencies world wide, plus private organizations and think-tanks, gathered in Lyon to address a wide range of issues of strategic and tactical interest to law enforcement authorities.
Broad topic areas included:
Trends in collaboration between criminals and terrorists,
New techniques for identifying and tracing suspects,
Cross-cultural considerations for effective investigations of persons of Islamic, Hindu and
Buddhist religion,
Recent investigations involving money laundering, fraud, underground banking and human smuggling by ethnic Asian criminals, and
Essential differences between mindsets of West, South and East Asian criminals and societies

Asian Crime Symposium 2005