Prostitution organ trafficking drugs cigarettes toxic Waste Pharmaceuticals weapons not to mention corruption tax evasion Money Laundering terrorism it liberalization of our economy means crime is going Truly International and the digital revolution has brought us cyber crime. To tackle all these forms of crime and International Organization was founded to bring together and coordinate police from off five continents interpol. The First International criminal Police Conference was held in monaco in one nine hundred fourteen twenty four countries laid down the founding principles of International Police cooperation the concept of interpol was built. More than one hundred years later its a respected organization but what do we really know about it. Interpols mission is to gordon the exchange of information among the Police Forces of its one hundred ninety two member countries but with so many different states involved some more democratic than others and often with differing interests and International Police organization can be hard to coordinate. Budget is also far too low to accomplish the tests it has set for itself. In twenty eleven it decided to begin entering into financial partnerships with various multinationals institutions and governments. And that raises the question of how those funds are used can an International Organization truly remain impartial and avoid conflicts of interest if it depends on the outside partners. Mrs ward. I think that. Extremely important for us security. When the interpol system is abused by undemocratic regimes to silence and persecute. And human rights defenders. Of. Such abuse. As the so is interpol being manipulated and has there been abuse. Your. Parliament has entered the debate about red notices which are alerts issued by interpol this came after. A german writer of turkish descent was arrested by Spanish Police in august twenty seventeen. His arrest resulted from an interpol red notice requested by turkey. Is known mainly for his views on the Armenian Genocide and the issue of kurdish rights. Connecting police for safer world thats interpols model the red notices are at the core of the organizations work and its efforts to combat crime. But theyve also brought interpol notoriety. Only. When a country has individuals who belong to either terrorist or criminal organizations and if it provides us with their identity photos fingerprints etc so from the moment the notice is issued its seen by some one hundred ninety member countries and that means that individual can be picked up in a routine check anywhere in the world. Notices or one of interpols key tools in fighting International Crime they come in different colors but the red ones are the best known when a member country reports a criminal an offense and escape a threat interpol issues a red notice. Its an alert that can set a worldwide manhunt in motion. Red notices are a tried and tested tool but their numbers increased five fold in the span of just ten years. There were some twenty three hundred in two thousand and five and nearly thirteen thousand in two thousand and sixteen. But that increase also has a side effect. Graham effect on them yeah last year we issued about ten thousand requests right notices wanted notices one to two percent of them would dispute it. That one to two percent represents tens or even hundreds of red notices but article three of interpols constitution referred to as the neutrality clause stipulates it is strictly forbidden for the organization to undertake any intervention or activities of a political military religious or racial character. Sanctioning those who abuse red notices might be a solution but interpol is permanently underfunded. Its the second largest International Organization after the United Nations but its budget nowhere near matches its reputation. The combined statutory contributions of all one hundred ninety two member countries come to hardly more than fifty Million Euros by comparison the f. B. I. s budget is some seven billion euros sixty times more. So right now in the polls in a budget deficit weve reduced our operating budget weve reduced our travel budget and weve frozen new highs essentially since ive joined weve had three people. Here construct who was elected in the poll secretarygeneral in late twenty fourteen was supposed to enforce this new austerity regime. A daunting task even more so because his predecessor ronald noble had sought to make interpol on the present and indispensable with a budget to match. Gaining your trust the trust of my staff. And acting in the best interest of the organization. Have been my number one priority as your secretary general. Noble spent fourteen years at the headed into. The arrived in leone in france in late two thousand with an Ambitious Program in mind me. Then came september eleventh two thousand and one. Noble had been director of interpol in leone for less than a year. Its a kind of love and. No one calls on call before congress will nervous the first person comes out of ive come up with. After support operate help us Exchange Information and decided that the lights were never going to turn off and must remember that interpols vision is to connect police force if a world over the next ten years noble overhauled interpols mission its Communication System and its Law Enforcement operations from the ground up. These changes were expensive noble increased interpol staff from three hundred eighty to eight hundred but his budget didnt increase to match the secretary general set a new plan in motion to obtain the financing he needed for his ambitious plans. Global overhaul strawman crime count a chronic to believe theres a massive tosh and you give it fifty Million Euros to a broad globally on government you ought to be a shine to them should. You not to over two thousand and eight interpol seventy seven General Assembly was held in St Petersburg in his opening speech ronald noble directed an appeal to then Prime Minister vladimir putin. Mr Prime Minister i beseech you personally and all heads of state and government of interpols one hundred eighty seven member countries to act swiftly and decisively in supporting interpols Global Security initiative for the twenty First Century and the creation of a billion euro fund to support interpols efforts. A billion euros that was fifteen times his budget. What your current but. Seventy Million Euros go to some a lot as you said to me you remember a billion you said it was over for are you prepared to say now youre still one two billion i still want to billion i still believe it should be a boy and i believe its easy to defend whos stopping you getting a bill. Our member countries our member countries are prepared to spend billions and tens of billions and hundreds of billions of dollars and war in other ways to try to make the world safer and not spend a fraction of that to try to prevent crime in two thousand and ten ronald noble was reelected by an overwhelming majority for a third term as head of interpol he knew it would be his last term and he said everything in motion to obtain the billion euro budget he had long been calling for. Filing that many use of troughing he then moved logically into private Public Partnerships from alternative method of achieving the sorts of funding budgeted in the poll needed. Only private partnerships or p. P. P. These were in fashion they were strongly encouraged by both the world bank and the European Investment bank. Between two thousand and ten and twenty fifteen the contributions of member countries to the regular budget increased by just six point five percent private investment was climbing to dizzying heights increasing by as much as seven hundred fifty percent. What kind of organizations are they associating with and what was the purpose of that organization or association. Or how can we ensure theyre working completely independently and without any cronyism the pipes. One year into the beginning of these private partnerships concerns about potential conflicts of interest were brewing. From germanys point of view cooperation with the private sector has always been a particularly sensitive point. You have to make sure its not the money thats choosing the projects but rather of the projects that determine what farms are needed. To mistrust had its roots in an Early Partnership signed in two thousand and eleven with fee for the International Federation of football association. Chris eaton was the key player in this project the Australian Police officer had risen in interpols ranks to become head of its command in Coordination Center up with a vital part of the organisation. It was a prestigious position but he left it to become head of security at fifa his mission no was to investigate the growing problem of match fixing the guns and victims who pushed to understand how all this happened you have to go back to twenty ten twenty eleven to the time when what they call match fixing match was starting to become a major problem if fans couldnt be sure anymore if it was a real match football would lose all its meaning no one would go to the stadiums anymore. And thats why everyone suddenly wanted to sort out this problem. This was especially true if effect which receives the lions share of its revenues from t. V. Broadcasting rights for feed. Match fixing results in fewer fans attending football matches fewer Television Viewers and less income. At the twenty ten world cup in south africa feel fitter and almost a billion euros in two thousand and fourteen in brazil more than three billion. Dollars you guys tried it with rum. And with the drug to have free for invest into paul because it was clear to me that new to the polish import as to might be any major action if its. More effective. On may ninth two thousand and eleven chris eaton welcome to ronald noble it features headquarters to celebrate the partnership between interpol and the most popular sport in the world. With the cash infusion of twenty Million Euros over ten years. At the time everyone was surprised. I myself thought interpol interval had never really interested me. And it happened at the very moment president blast to and feet were being attacked from all sites on an apartment shuttle that call they dont live there that it. Was. Six months earlier had made some surprising decisions on the bids to host the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two world cup. Full. Combat i think for the. Moment. This was six months before interpol signed its Partnership Deal with. Why would an International PoliceOrganization Ally itself with an association that was under deep suspicion. First that. The secretary general of. The deal was signed just three weeks before the sixty first fifa congress. Would be seeking a fourth term as fee for president. Doesnt deserve side of course appearing in public with the secretary general of interpol at that particular moment was a gift from the gods. That that. Is going to be good i think is that little bit there but i think the future will be called let. Me give. You something the. Record. Setter was reelected but over the next months and years the scandals that fifo would continue unabated. For sept leisure the partnership provided an air of integrity and security his reelection interpol gained twenty Million Euros to fight match fixing and help preserve the first lucrative broadcast deals and. So much by the present presentation of the contract with ron noble that blood test said this wonderful sentence that i find very revealing. Who knows this might become the Intelligence Wing afifa guy. Ron noble the future intelligence chief afifa was sitting right beside him and said nothing. Much. Speculation was rife it appeared that an International Police organization had gotten into bed with. In another private partnership Philip Morris international contributed fifteen Million Euros in two thousand and twelve to fight cigarette smuggling what motivated the giant tobacco manufacturer tobacco trafficking cut into its profits anough so that it put out major ad campaigns attacking it so bad traffickers are the Third Largest global cigarette suppliers trading around six hundred billion illegal cigarettes every year this means that legal manufacturers and retailers are losing sales while governments and taxpayers are being robbed forty to fifty billion dollars in money that could be funding in court and Public Services and helping local communities by working together Legal IndustryLaw Enforcement governor chance civil society. Staff feel legal cigarette together we can stop illegal cigarettes. If Philip Morris was to be believed stamping out cigarette smuggling could do wonderful things for our communities and our children. So why then did the World Health Organization see red when this partnership was announced to the point of refusing interpol observer status at their conference on tobacco control. Over the course of the last fifteen years the Tobacco Industry has managed to convince. Governments around the World International agencies like interpol even i last attention like that rather than being as pariahs supplier and this product actually its a victim of the illicit macca trade and part of the solution but nothing could be further from the truth into how good interpol and its secretary general have signed an agreement with Philip Morris knowing that going back to nine hundred eighty nine there are eighty million documents to testify to all the misdeeds of the Tobacco Industry we believe they show that the industry hasnt respected the law and that it has knowingly collaborated with criminal organizations known for us that raises many questions as well as in the course of halakhah. The partnership between interpol and the Tobacco Industry certainly was fibro raising. The Tobacco Industry stood accused of participating in cigarette smuggling and counterfeiting over decades in collaboration with the italian and the balkan mafia. In two thousand and four Philip Morris international agreed to pay one point two five billion dollars to the e. U. In return for avoiding further litigation. But why would the Tobacco Industry promote smuggling of their own product. First of all cigarettes smuggled away way cheaper because they have no taxes on them. The cheaper they are the more they sell and in particular they move i sell to young people and the Tobacco Industrys documents also make clear that they understand that its really important to have cheap cigarettes available for young people because otherwise they wouldnt take up this deadly habit. In total Philip Morris international and three other tobacco giants agreed to pay the European Union more than two billion euros. Under this agreement the European Anti Fraud Office or all of the e. U. In. The Tobacco Industry would join forces in the battle against cigarette smuggling. But when it comes to cigarette smuggling there are three categories counterfeit cigarettes often of poor quality contraband real but stolen are untaxed. And cheap white also known as illicit whites which are cigarettes produced legally in one country to be sold on the black market in another. So what type of trafficking was the agreement between interpol and Philip Morris international really aimed at. This deal is really just about addressing counterfeit and counterfeit it is just one element of the illicit cigarette trade and its the smallest element is a far bigger problem with the Tobacco Companies products and you know and the illicit market by putting money into it and so in suppose i can speak about the list its back a trade and represent issues on the illicit stop tobacco trade that the Tobacco Companies want to see represented. In the Tobacco Industry had secured substantial control of the fight against cigarette smuggling and illegal trade that damage t