More confidential government files were found on a train earlier this week, it has been revealed.

The Independent on Sunday says it was handed the documents, which cover fighting global terrorist funding, drugs trafficking and money laundering.

The files, about a meeting of financial crime experts, were found on the same day as a batch of top secret papers about al-Qaeda were handed to the BBC.

A Treasury spokesman said the government was "extremely concerned".

The documents apparently include briefing notes for a meeting of the international Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to be held in 11 Downing Street next week.

Yard 'not involved'

A Treasury spokesman said: "We are extremely concerned about what has happened and we will be taking steps to ensure that it doesn't happen in the future."

The papers were found on train bound for London Waterloo on 11 June, the same day that another batch of secret papers relating to intelligence assessments of Iraq and al-Qaeda were handed to the BBC after being left by a senior official on a train.

The confidential files were said to include details of how trade and banking systems could be manipulated to finance illicit weapons of mass destruction in Iran.

They also discussed methods of terrorist funding and the potential fraud of commercial websites and international internet payment systems.

The Independent on Sunday said it had returned the documents and would not be divulging any details contained in them.

Scotland Yard said it was not involved in investigating the latest case.

The FATF conference is due to begin on Monday at the QE2 Conference Centre in Westminster, opposite the Houses of Parliament.

The FATF was established by the 1989 G7 summit in Paris to spearhead efforts to counter the use of the international financial system by criminals.

It has since expanded to 34 members.

They are up to something! last year they lost a load of files on a disc containing information on benefits of millions of people or something similar.
 The same kind of thing has been happening in America where social security files have been "lost".

The found files were handed in to the BBC and the second lot handed in to the Independant newspaper. Why?
 Surely if a person found these secret documents they would hand them in to the nearest police station rather than travel in to town to hand them over to two news outlets.
  All very fishy!
Are they conditioning the public for something?

Inclined to agree LM. Seems to me a way of showing the public that all details ore on file anyway so why not consolidate all this disparate and dis-organised info into a handy National Identity Register, complete with ID cards.

It's also a handy tool for putting fear in the public, as there's always some lowly civil servant who gets the blame, not the Govt.

Well, now the Joint Intelligence Commitee are reluctant to share sensitive information with the Governmen! LOL!

Ooops more secret papers accidentaly left on a train, sounds like an episode from Thomas the Tank Engine.

Who do these people think they are kidding ?


Robert.

It's happened yet again!.......this is really laying it on thick!

Chips a-coming!

  30,000 NHS records lost as seven laptops stolen
By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 5:01PM BST 18/06/2008
Laptops containing the personal details of more than 30,000 NHS patients have been stolen in two separate thefts.

AP
Sensitive data was stored on laptops in defiance of regulations
More than 20,000 records were held on computers stolen from a south London hospital. In Wolverhampton, a laptop holding details on around 11,000 patients has been stolen.

The missing data includes names, addresses, NHS numbers and, in the Wolverhampton theft, personal medical histories.

In both cases, sensitive data had been stored on laptops in defiance of rules that are meant to protect such records from theft or loss.

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......and here's yet another bunch of files on a CD gone missing.

This is happening every week now...

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