DOHA: Ezdan Holding Group’s Chairman, Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Thani Al Thani, who participated in a symposium on ‘Fighting Economic Crime and Promoting Transparency’ in Britain, has been honoured by Cambridge University for extending generous support to the cause.
“Qatar is one of the first countries to have paid special attention to fighting economic crime and money laundering operations,” Sheikh Khalid Al Thani said in a statement issued yesterday.
Sheikh Khalid said that Qatar had realised early the danger posed by economic crime in general and money laundering operations in particular and was adhering to the relevant international rules and agreements, in addition to hosting conferences, local and international symposiums and training programmes for employees of banks, local companies and security agencies to combat such crime.
Dr Khalid participated as a main guest of honour in the opening session of the thirty-second edition of the international symposium organised by James Faculty of Cambridge University in London.
The week-long event attracted more than 1,500 experts from the economic, security, financial and social sectors.
At the opening of the symposium, Dr Khalid was officially welcomed and thanked for accepting the invitation of the university and was honoured for participating in the symposium.
He met Professor Barry Rider, head and founder of Cambridge International Symposium, and Dr Lu’ayy Al Rimawi, International Director of the Symposium in the Middle East, and Sir Kenneth Warner, former president of the Committee of Trade and Industry in the British parliament.
The event is considered the largest and most specialised in fighting economic crime in both private and public sectors.
The symposium was sponsored by a number of universities, including Cambridge, and anti-fraud and investigation agencies such as Britain’s Serious Fraud Office, National Crime Agency and London Police, International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities, European and American investigation agencies, including FBI, and the Institute of Legal Advanced Studies.
Dr Khalid stated that economic crimes and money laundering operations were a source of concern for security, financial and economic agencies, pointing to the growing interest in these crimes in recent years, which involve hundreds of billions of dollars and complicated methods to hack banking systems.
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