Footballer Lionel Messi, the Argentine team captain and FC Barcelona striker, with Argentina’s Minister of Security Sergio Berni, is backing an Interpol campaign encouraging the public, businesses and governments to play a role in reducing the impact of crime.
Interpol Secretary General Ronald K Noble said: “Lionel Messi is known the world over as one of the greatest players of all time and his support for the INTERPOL Turn Back Crime campaign shows his commitment to fair play both on and off the pitch. With less than a week before the 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Brazil, Lionel Messi’s backing for the Turn Back Crime campaign is a reminder that no matter who you support, we are all on the same team in fighting crime.
“We hope that his support for the campaign will encourage more people around the world to join us and say, together we can turn back crime.”
Messi joins film star Jackie Chan, the first Ambassador for the INTERPOL Turn Back Crime campaign to help educate, engage and encourage the public to act on crime. According to the policing body, while many people know that transnational organised crime networks are behind various forms of trafficking such as illicit goods, fake medicines, drugs, arms and even people, they are often unaware of the links with other seemingly unrelated and varied crimes. Environmental crime, counterfeiting, cybercrime, kidnapping, fraud, crimes against children and corruption in sport are in fact often interconnected, the Lyons-based policing body adds, with profits from one crime area used to fund another. Visit www.turnbackcrime.com.
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