FBI Director Christopher Wray met CBI Director Praveen Sood in India’s capital New Delhi on Monday (Dec 11) the place methods to realize better cooperation in cyber-related monetary crimes together with different matters had been mentioned, information company PTI reported citing officers.

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Wray and different senior officers reached the company headquarters within the afternoon for the assembly, they added.

The FBI Director, throughout his two-day go to to India, is about to satisfy high officers of Indian safety and legislation enforcement institutions, the officers stated.

He arrived in New Delhi on Sunday night (Dec 10).

Wray and Sood, throughout their assembly, mentioned points associated to the change of knowledge on cybercrime circumstances, narcotics, pending judicial requests and extradition of needed criminals, folks accustomed to the matter stated.

“Both agencies recognised the challenges posed by organised crime networks, cyber-enabled financial crimes, ransomware threats, economic crimes and transnational crimes,” CBI stated in an official press assertion.

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The high-profile go to is towards the backdrop of allegations by Washington over India’s alleged connection to a foiled plot to kill Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil.

The US Ambassador, Eric Garcetti throughout a panel dialogue on the Carnegie ‘Global Technology Summit’, had made a point out of the FBI director’s go to to India.

He stated that India was “the number one country she (US Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen) went to outside the United States. Four times this year. The Secretary of State (Antony Blinken) just came here for the third time. Secretary of Defence (Lloyd Austin) for the second time. The FBI director is here next week.”

Earlier, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi on being requested about Wray’s go to to India, stated that it was part of the general bilateral cooperation in areas of cyber safety, counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics.

“As you’re aware, we have robust security, cyber-security, counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics cooperation with the US agencies. We are also engaged in capacity-building programmes. So as part of this ongoing bilateral cooperation, a visit By the FBI director is in the works,” he had stated.

(With inputs from companies)