“Financial crimes in our local banks are getting serious although I can’t quantify,” PCCB director-general Edward Hoseah said. “Indeed e-crimes have made the fighting of financial crimes more difficult, demanding high level technical skills and sophisticated equipment and software to tackle.”
But he told a forum on challenges in the auditing of public organisations in Dar es Salaam on Friday that the bureau was cooperating with other financial and security organs to curb the problem.
He bemoaned that e-government and e-trade had made public authorities more vulnerable to e-crimes and it had been extremely difficult to track down dubious financial transactions and suspects abroad.
The National Bank of Commerce and the Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited are the latest institutions to have lost billions of shillings through cybercrime.
NMB managing director Ben Christianse told The Citizen recently that joint efforts were needed to deal with IT-related crimes.
“No single financial institution can authoritatively claim to be immune to such crimes as fraudsters deploy new theft techniques everyday,” said Mr Christianse, who is also the Tanzania Bankers Association chairman.
The US-based Global Financial Integrity says Tanzania lost $8.9 billion through illicit means including money laundry in the last four decades.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Al-amani Mutarubukwa
Quelle/Source: The Citizen Daily, 09.08.2010
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