ICPO-Interpol - General Assembly 54th session - Washington, D.C. - 1st-8th October 1985

HAVING STUDIED Reports Nos. 8 and 8 bis submitted by the Secretary General, entitled 'Offences related to economic and financial criminality',

FINDING that the present area of studies and co-operation in combating international economic crime is inadequate,

CONVINCED of the need to intensify co-operation in this area through Interpol,

NOTING the recommendation, regarding this type of crime, made by the 7th United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders,

The ICPO-Interpol General Assembly, meeting in Washington, D.C. from 1st to 8th October 1985 at its 54th session:

DECIDES:

1. That the General Secretariat shall prepare an instruction manual, similar to the existing on for co-operation in combating illicit drug traffic (cf. ICPO Vade Mecum, Part 3, Chapter 1), for the use of National Central Bureaus and specialist services, outlining the practical possibilities that currently exist for co-operation in dealing with international economic crime;
2. That the Fifth Symposium on international economic crime shall include a discussion not only of the types of crime mentioned in Report No. 8, but also of money laundering techniques adopted to overcome the Internal Revenue laws and Foreign Exchange Regulations of member countries, invoice manipulations and customs frauds - defrauding National Exchequers - and the role of Interpol in the fight against such international economic crime;
3. That combating international economic crime should be an item on the agendas of all Regional Conferences;

HOPES to secures the co-operation of member countries in combating the new forms of international economic crime particularly affecting National Exchequers.