CIS anti-terrorism center has info about tens of terrorist organizations, helps CIS states to fight them
MOSCOW. Nov 12 (Interfax) - The special databank of the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center contains information about 73 terrorist and extremist organizations which are banned in the CIS states, first deputy head of the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center Kanat Kozhakhmetov said.
"The data which is contained in this database can be used by border guard agencies, branches of the penitentiary system, migration bodies, as well as financial intelligence structures," Kozhakhmetov said, speaking at the 7th regional conference of the International Association of Prosecutors of the countries in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia in Sochi on Thursday.
Kozhakhmetov, who is cited by the press bureau of the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center, said that the data stores of the special databank of the Anti-Terrorism Center were accumulating information about people who went outside the CIS to participate in combat actions on the side of international terrorist organizations in the Middle East.
This data can assist interested CIS law enforcement agencies in implementing measures to seal off the channels of trafficking gunmen, he said.
"The overwhelming majority of the photographs of mercenaries allows for applying them in the use of modern biometrical personality identification technologies," Kozhakhmetov said.
Within its competence the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center assists the law enforcement agencies and security services in the CIS states to conduct interstate searches of those suspected of terrorism and extremism.
