Networking Breakfast
Wren: Foyer
Opening Remarks
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David Marchant
Founder, Owner & Editor
OffshoreAlert
UAE Uncovered: The New Ground Zero for Financial Crime
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Behind the United Arab Emirates' gaudy exterior is a not-so-pretty side.
This session will look at evidence that the UAE, particularly Dubai, has become a popular jurisdiction with investment fraudsters, oligarchs, sanctioned politicians, and money launderers, whom the country appears to welcome with open arms.
Speakers include investigative journalists who will present evidence of crooks purchasing property (and explaining how to investigate UAE property ownership), a British licensed insolvency practitioner who was prevented from leaving the UAE for three months after a British criminal defendant whose assets he was investigating filed a complaint against him, and a Deutsche Bank whistleblower who was targeted by the Dubai authorities after she blew the whistle on a massive money laundering scheme.
Anna Waterhouse
Whistleblower
Deutsche Bank (Former)
David Ingram
Partner
Grant Thornton
Eiliv Frich Flydal
Investigative Journalist
VG/E24.no
Tom Stocks
Senior Investigator
OCCRP
Networking Break
Wren: Foyer
Normalizing Fraud: The Crazy World of Crypto
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This session will look at the unprecedented amount of fraud taking place in the crypto industry in which millions of victims all over the world have been - and continue to be - collectively scammed out of hundreds of billions of dollars in schemes that, in many cases, are hawked by celebrities, influencers, and even 'respected' businesspeople. It will also analyze whether, apart from being a tool to commit fraud, the underlying technology behind crypto has any legitimate uses or any future.
Francine McKenna
Lecturer
Wharton Business School, UPenn
Martin Walker
Banking IT Expert
Center for Evidence-Based Management
Stephen Diehl
Software Engineer
Networking Lunch
Leo's Restaurant
Tether: The Coin That Could Wreck Crypto
Wren: Nelson Suite
This session will look at several red flags concerning the $60 billion 'stablecoin' know as Tether and the potentially devastating impact its collapse - which many consider to be inevitable - is likely to have on the entire crypto industry and the wider financial markets.
Francine McKenna
Lecturer
Wharton Business School, UPenn
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan
Banking & Fintech Correspondent
Financial Times
Russia: Financial Crime Intelligence & Sanctions Evasion
Wren: Dickens Suite
This session will analyze financial crime in Russia, the scale of the problem, and how Russian entities are evading sanctions imposed as as a result of its invasion of Ukraine.
Christopher Steele
Director & Joint Founder
Orbis Business Intelligence
Franz Wild
Editor
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Michelle Linderman
Partner
Crowell & Moring
Simon Bowers
Investigations Editor
Finance Uncovered
OSINT Guide to Crypto Investigations
Wren: Nelson Suite
This session will show attendees tools and techniques to conduct their own investigations into crypto.
Luke Russell
Global Investigations and Training Specialist
TRM Labs
Networking Break
Wren: Foyer
Advanced Crypto Investigations & Recovery: Challenges and Solutions
Wren: Nelson Suite
In this session, leading experts in crypto investigations and recovery will offer tips and guidance on investigating and recovering crypto - an industry that is awash with fraud.
Aidan Larkin
Chief Executive Officer
Asset Reality
Carmel King
Director
Grant Thornton
Nick Furneaux
Blockchain Intelligence Expert
TRM Labs
Syed Rahman
Partner
Rahman Ravelli
The Art of Global Intelligence-Gathering: Facts vs. BS
Wren: Dickens Suite
This session will look at the opaque industry of global intelligence-gathering, including how to obtain and analyze information from sources of varying trustworthiness, credibility, and motivations who might have conflicting accounts in an attempt to determine where the truth is most likely to lie.
Andrew Wordsworth
Partner
Raedas
Cynthia O’Murchu
Reporter
Financial Times
Nicola Boulton
Partner
PCB Byrne
Tobias Vollmer
Director
Raedas
Cocktail Reception (Overlooking St. Paul's Cathedral)
Sabine Rooftop Bar
Networking Breakfast
Wren: Foyer
Must-Have Investigative Tools
Wren: Nelson Suite
This session will look at databases, tools, and resources to investigate individuals and entities operating internationally.
Bob Duffield
Executive Chairman
GreyList Trace
Charles Brown
Head of Community
Blackdot Solutions
Networking Break
Wren: Foyer
High-Value International Recovery: Tips From The Experts (Part One)
Wren: Nelson Suite
Leading international fraud and value recovery attorneys will take your questions and discuss emerging and dominant issues that impact your ability to be successful and effective in offshore and onshore jurisdictions.
This session is intended to be informal and interactive and represents an opportunity for you to have your questions answered by experts who have 'been there, seen it, done it'.
Edward H. Davis, Jr.
Founding Shareholder
Sequor Law
Shaun Reardon-John
Consultant Solicitor-Advocate
Martin Kenney & Co.
Simon Thomas
Partner
Baker & Partners
Detecting Match-Fixing in Sport
Wren: Dickens Suite
This session will look at match-fixing in spot, how big the problem is, and how it's detected.
Adam Francis
Senior Integrity Manager
Sportradar Integrity Services
Adam Pennock
Business Development Director Global
Sportradar Intelligence & Investigation Services
Networking Lunch
Leo's Restaurant
High-Value International Recovery: Tips From The Experts (Part Two)
Wren: Nelson Suite
Leading international fraud and value recovery attorneys will take your questions and discuss emerging and dominant issues that impact your ability to be successful and effective in offshore and onshore jurisdictions.
This session is intended to be informal and interactive and represents an opportunity for you to have your questions answered by experts who have 'been there, seen it, done it'.
Anthony McClements
Managing Director, Investigations
Martin Kenney & Co.
Arnoldo Lacayo
Partner
Sequor Law
Javed Hussain
CEO, GreyList Red
GreyList Trace
OneCoin: The Missing Billion-Dollar Cryptoqueen
Wren: Dickens Suite
Jamie Bartlett
Tech Expert, Author & Presenter
The Incredible Story of Arif Naqvi & The Abraaj Group
Wren: Nelson Suite
Arif Naqvi was charismatic, inspiring, and self-made - all the qualities of a successful business leader. The founder of Abraaj, a Dubai-based private-equity firm, Naqvi was the Key Man to the global elite searching for impact investments to make money and do good. He persuaded politicians he could help stabilize the Middle East after 9/11 by providing jobs and guided executives to opportunities in cities they struggled to find on the map. Bill Gates helped him start a $1 billion fund to improve healthcare in poor countries and the UN and Interpol appointed him to boards. As Pope Francis blessed a move to harness capitalism for the good of the poor, Naqvi won the support of Obama’s administration and investors, who compared him to Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible.
In 2018, Simon Clark and Will Louch were contacted by an anonymous whistleblower who said Naqvi had swindled investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars and offered bribes to sustain his billionaire lifestyle. Digging into the claims, Clark and Louch uncovered hundreds of documents and exposed the wrongdoing. In April 2019—months after their exposé broke—Naqvi was arrested on charges of fraud and racketeering, and faces up to 291 years in jail.
In this session, Clark will discuss how the global elite was duped by a capitalist fairytale and shine a light on efforts to clean up global capital flows even as opaque private equity firms amass trillions of dollars and offshore tax havens cast a veil of secrecy which prevents regulators, investors and citizens from understanding what’s really going on in the finance industry.
Simon Clark
Author, 'The Key Man'
Fighting Fraud & Earning Rewards: Programs Available to Crypto & Other Whistleblowers
Wren: Dickens Suite
This session will look at rewards programs for whistleblowers in cryptocurrency and other industries.
Daren Firestone
Partner
Levy Firestone Muse
Networking Break
Wren: Foyer
'ENRC v. Gerrard': Will International Investigations Ever Be The Same?
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This panel discussion will be organised along the lines of the 'BBC Question Time' format with the panellists making some initial comments about the implications of the 'ENRC v. Gerrard' judgment and then answering questions from attendees.
Among the topics to be addressed are:
- Is there a conflict of interest in a public authority acting as both investigator and prosecutor?
- What duty of care should an investigator have in respect of a. information and documentation they receive in the course of their investigation b.the preparation and preservation of internal meetings/discussions/memos?
- Should it make any difference whether the investigator is a private or public body?
- Is "fee churning" a problem in the legal and investigative professions?
- What role should a Compliance Group/Officer play in a) Internal investigations conducted by an organisation and b) Investigations conducted by lawyers on behalf of an organisation? c.investigations conducted by a public body?
- What role should a director/partner/employee who is the central figure in alleged wrongdoing play in a) Any internal investigation into that wrongdoing? and b) Any legal proceedings relating to that alleged wrongdoing?
Alison Macdonald KC
Barrister
Essex Court Chambers
Gareth Minty
Partner, White Collar Crime Group
Mishcon de Reya
Gary Miller
Partner
Mishcon de Reya
Helen Hatton
Chairman
Central Associates
Johanna Walsh
Head of Investigations
Mishcon de Reya
Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe
Former Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner
Closing Remarks
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