What is the Silver Notice?
12-01-2025
12:27 PM
1 min read

Overview:
Recently, the International Criminal Police Organisation, or Interpol, has introduced its first ‘Silver Notice’.
About Silver Notice:
- It is the latest addition to Interpol’s suite of colour-coded alerts, designed to help countries track and retrieve criminally obtained assets.
- This notice allows participating nations to request information on assets linked to criminal activities such as fraud, corruption, drug trafficking, and environmental crimes.
- It aimed at tracing assets laundered across international borders.
- This initiative, part of a pilot project involving 52 countries, including India, was launched following a request from Italy to locate the assets of a senior mafia member.
- The project will run until at least November 2025, with 500 notices available for distribution among the participating countries.
- How does it work?
- Countries can use the Silver Notice to request information on various assets, including properties, vehicles, financial accounts, and businesses connected to criminal activities.
- The notice facilitates the identification and location of these assets, enabling further legal action, such as seizure or confiscation, subject to national laws.
- India’s role in this
- India is a participant in this pilot project and stands to benefit significantly.
- With numerous fugitive economic offenders and a substantial amount of unaccounted black money transferred offshore, the Silver Notice could be instrumental in tracing and recovering these assets.

Q1: What is the role of INTERPOL?
Interpol supports law enforcement officials in the field with emergency support and operational activities, especially in its priority crime areas of fugitives, public safety and terrorism, drugs and organized crime, trafficking in human beings and financial and high-tech crime.
Source: BS