FBI director visits NIA, discusses 'criminal-terrorist nexus, probe into attack on Indian consulate'

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New Delhi: US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Christopher A Wray, who is on a two-day visit to India, Tuesday met Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Dinkar Gupta to discuss activities of terrorist-organised criminal networks, ongoing investigations in the attack on the Indian consulate in San Francisco and investigation of cyber-terror and cybercrimes, among other issues...

In a statement Tuesday, the NIA said that during the discussion, Gupta highlighted the active nexus between terrorist outfits and terrorist elements with members of organised criminal syndicates, which was spreading to the US as well...

According to the statement, Wray said that both agencies have a lot in common and the similarities are far greater than the differences.He also informed the NIA that the FBI was aggressively investigating the attack on the Indian consulate in San Francisco...

Wrays visit comes at a time when the US has indicted an Indian national and highlighted the alleged involvement of an Indian government official in an assassination plot against wanted Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun..

Gupta also highlighted that the NIA was seeing the use of cryptocurrency for terrorist financing, the statement said.. Wray said cybercrimes were being committed to fund terrorism and this evolution of the cyber-threat needed a joint response towards investigation of cyber-threat cases, it added...

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