Govt to synchronise economic intelligence agencies
Friday, 15 April 2011, 06:56 IST
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New Delhi: As the country is witnessing a series of scams, the government has begun an ambitious exercise to rejig the snoop mechanism and synchronise the databases of economic intelligence and enforcement agencies. The Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB), the apex body which coordinates with all agencies that enforce economic laws in the country and gather intelligence on this front, is enhancing its database with the latest information of economic offenders and offences, official sources said. The Finance Ministry is also doing a rejig by bringing the classified databases of agencies under its command like Enforcement Directorate (ED), Income Tax department and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) for "online exchange of intelligence and information" under a Secure Information Exchange Network (SIEN).
Source: PTI
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