Afghan Threat Finance Cell


The Afghan Threat Finance Cell is a multi-agency intelligence organization, in Afghanistan.
The organization was created in 2008.
The United States' Drug Enforcement Administration is the lead agency in the organization.
The co-deputy agencies are the United States Treasury and the United States Department of Defense. Other participating agencies include the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Department of Homeland Security, and the United States Internal Revenue Service.

History

The Afghan Threat Finance Cell was set up at the initiative of General David Petraeus, when he was promoted to command of CentCom, based on the experience of the earlier Iraqi Threat Finance Cell, that had reported to him when he was in command in Iraq.
In February 2011, Dexter Filkins, writing in The New Yorker, reported:
The organization was instrumental in exposing corruption in the Kabul Bank, which came close to collapse in 2010.
In February 2012 the Afghan Threat Finance Cell was awarded the
Department of Defense's Joint Meritorious Unit Award.

Operations

Tracking both illicit and legitimate financial transactions led to 27 approved targets to be named on the "Joint Prioritized Effects List". The Joint Prioritized Effects List is colloquially called the "kill or capture list". Once an individual is named on this list, special forces are authorized to covertly target and raid that individual's home or workplace.