CHINA JOINS EUROPOL AND AUSTRALIA IN TACKLING CYBERCRIME

China is increasingly looking to utilise international cooperation to tackle cybercrime and other offences, including financial frauds. This month alone, the Chinese government has signed crime-busting pacts with both Australia and the European police authority, Europol, following a similar China-US government deal forged in 2015. Europol said on April 19 that it had signed a “strategic cooperation agreement” with China to cooperate on key areas including cybercrime, asset recovery, money laundering and organised property crime, swapping both strategic ...


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