FBI Director Christopher Wray told India’s top counter-terrorism agency that it is “aggressively” investigating attacks on the Indian consulate in San Francisco.
First Post reports that Wray is on a three-day visit to India and that several issues have come up.
“During the meeting, candid and wide-ranging discussions were held on a host of issues, including activities of terrorist-organized criminal networks, ongoing investigations in the US in the attack on the Indian Consulate in San Francisco, investigation of cyber-terror and cyber-crimes of various kinds,” the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said in a statement.
Vandals attacked the consulate in San Francisco on March 19, causing property damage. Then in the wee hours of July 2, someone set the consulate on fire.
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Wray’s trip to India comes just weeks after the U.S. expressed concerns that India had been involved in a failed attempt to kill Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the United States.
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India TV reports that Wray warned that a blending of lines between terrorists and criminals had become blurred in cyberspace. He stressed the need for the FBI and NIA to cooperate to deal with the threats of terrorism.
According to First Post, a team from NIA arrived in San Francisco in August to collect evidence and security footage of the attacks on the consulate there.
“Both the agencies recognized the challenges posed by organized crime networks, terror related crimes, cyber enabled terror attacks, ransomware threats, economic crimes and transnational terror crimes,” the NIA said.
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