Alwaght- German spy agency has been spying on International Police Organization, Interpol, since 2000, the country's media reported Saturday.
According to the information obtained by the German magazine Spiegel, German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been spying on Interpol's headquarters in the French city of Lyon as well as Interpol's liaison offices in Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy and the United States.
The BND reportedly has been checking Interpol's e-mail addresses as well as phone and fax numbers and also spied on Europol — European Police Office, the EU law enforcement agency.
BND known in German as Bundesnachrichtendienst is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinated to the Chancellor's Office.
Interpol comprises 190 member countries and is tasked with the search for international and war criminals, tackling terrorism and organized crime and countering smuggling, drug trafficking, money laundering and intellectual property crime.
This new report comes months after it emerged that BND has been spying on journalists.
According to reports this February, journalists from leading media outlets in the Western world including the BBC, Reuters and New York Times were among those spied on by the German foreign intelligence service. Reporters from less well known organizations in Kuwait, Lebanon, India, Nepal, Indonesia and Zimbabwe were also targeted.
