Christopher Wray, the FRI Director, who is currently on his visit to India, emphasised on the need to take the "partnership and cooperation" with India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) to the next level to deal with the constantly evolving challenges and threats of terrorism. He also informed that his agency was "aggressively" investigating the attack on the Indian consulate in San Francisco. His remark came on Tuesday during a meeting with NIA director general Dinkar Gupta on Tuesday in Delhi.

Wray visited the headquarters of NIA on Tuesday and held extensive discussions with NIA Director General Dinkar Gupta and senior officials of both agencies.

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According to an official statement by NIA, Wray informed the NIA that the FBI was aggressively investigating the attack on the Indian Consulate in San Francisco.

A discussion on several issues including the acts and activities of terrorist-organised criminal networks, ongoing investigations in the US in the attack on the Indian Consulate in San Francisco, investigation of cyber-terror and cyber-crimes of various kinds, also tookplace during the meeting.

According to NIA, the active nexus between the terrorist outfits and terrorist elements with members of Organised Criminal Syndicates, which was spreading to the US, was also a part of the wide-ranging discussions held during the meeting.

"Terror incidents like 9/11 and the Mumbai attacks have changed the way in which nations respond to terror threats," observed the FBI Director, emphasising on the need to take the partnership and "cooperation between the FBI and the NIA to the next level to deal with the constantly evolving challenges and threats of terrorism."

During the meeting, the NIA DG pointed out that threats in the cyber domain were increasing. Digital space was also being effectively exploited by terrorists and extremists for propagating radical views and recruitment, he said, adding that NIA was also seeing use of cryptocurrency for terrorist financing.

(With ANI inputs)