The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Interpol have asked Romania to carry out checks on Arab-owned businesses suspected of links to terrorist groups, national police chief Florin Sandu said on Wednesday, October 24.
"We are checking a number of companies and we will give the information to the FBI and the Interpol office in Washington," he said, declining to say how many companies were involved.
"So far we have no evidence proving any link between these firms and the funding of terrorist organizations," Sandu added. Romania's intelligence services (SRI) said at the start of October that they were investigating individuals in Romania who could have had links with the September 11 terror attacks in the United States.
SRI head Radu Timofte said 70 people, whose nationality he did not specify, had been expelled from Romania since the start of the year after being accused of links with terrorist groups. — (AFP, Bucharest)
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