Checking charity partners against terror lists
2nd June 2008, 3:07 pm
Charities working overseas may well need to check their trustees and beneficiaries against the government’s list of proscribed individuals as part of their duty of care to know about foreign partners. This is likely to be part of counter-terrorism guidelines to be issued by the Charity Commission later this year, according to Third Sector magazine.
This week’s issue has an interview with a senior member of the National Terrorist Finance Investigation Unit, ahead of a meeting next month between the Commission, intelligence agencies and sector representatives to discuss such guidelines.
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