On Oct. 29, the day the three-year statute of limitations expired on indictments of suspects in the online streaming of 114 documents related to an investigation into international terrorism, the Metropolitan Police Department sent a paper to the prosecution without mentioning the names of any suspects. It is believed that the MPD's Third Foreign Affairs Division prepared most of the leaked documents.
This case has revealed many problems. It has shown that investigation authorities have been sloppy in managing and controlling information stored in their computer systems. Clearly they must greatly improve the way they handle such information.
The leaked documents disclosed, among other things, the names of members of an antiterrorism team, a list of foreigners suspected of having links to international terrorism, remittances involving bank accounts held by employees at embassies of Muslim countries, the names of embassies of Muslim countries near which investigation points were set up, and names and addresses of informants who cooperated with the MPD division.