Economic crime report 2004 - Ekobrottsmyndigheten

4. Intelligence and Monitoring Operations
4.1 INTELLIGENCE
An overarching goal of the effort to combat economic crime is a substantial
reduction in its occurrence.
Decisive in that respect is the ability to quickly detect and stop crime
that is in progress by means of intelligence, investigative and monitoring
activities.
The National Criminal Investigation Department (RKP)
RKP has put together and disseminated information for the purpose of
preventing and foiling economic crime.
National and international cooperation has been expanded through working
with money transfer companies and similar efforts. Since funds can
increasingly be moved anonymously, one goal of the project is to counteract
money laundering.
The Financial Intelligence Unit (fipo)
FiPo is part of RKP’s criminal intelligence operation. FiPo’s task is to
gather, process and analyze information in order to flag early indications
of money laundering and new forms of economic crime such as credit
card fraud, as well as to support investigative efforts. The objective is to
stave off and uncover underlying illegalities in the abovementioned areas
and, when there is reasonable cause for suspecting crime, turn the matter
over to the police and public prosecutor to launch a pretrial investigation.
FiPo is the exclusive recipient of information from businesses, banks,
credit market firms, securities firms, foreign exchange offices, insurance
brokers, life insurance companies, money transfer companies and casinos
that have the duty to report. Pursuant to the UN’s International Convention
for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, those institutions
must also review and report on all transactions involving assets
that appear to stem from the funding of particularly serious offences.
Governed by the Swedish Act on Measures Against Money Laundering,
the effort is primarily a function of the information that businesses report
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