Boiler Rooms

Portuguese whistleblower Rui Pinto, whose work triggered tax fraud investigations against Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo and 115 financial fair play charges against Manchester City, will speak at OffshoreAlert's inaugural conference in Marbella, Spain, on June 19-21.

A global crime-wave known as 'Pig Butchering' and the role of crypto in laundering its tens of billions of dollars annual proceeds will be scrutinized at next month's OffshoreAlert Miami conference. A session entitled 'The New Financial Plague: 'Pig Butchering' will be presented by Erin West , Deputy District Attorney for Santa Clara County, California; Professor John Griffin, a Finance Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and Benedict Hamilton, Managing Director, Forensic Investigations and Intelligence, at Kroll. It is one of 16 sessions on intelligence, investigations, and recovery in high-value international finance that comprise The 20th Annual OffshoreAlert Miami Conference on April 14-16.

The sophisticated techniques by which proceeds are disguised and moved even through the most tightly-regulated of economies, the multi-jurisdictional crimes which are involved, the emergent risks faced by institutions and individuals alike, and, perhaps most importantly, the trailblazing methods and tools by which practitioners uncover culprits and recover assets will be discussed at OffshoreAlert Bangkok this month in a session entitled 'The Dark Side of the Economy: An Ever-Growing Global Launderette'. February 28-29, Bangkok.

The upcoming OffshoreAlert conference in Bangkok will feature a session by Ken Gamble of IFW Global, focusing on 'Operation Tropicana', a major operation that dismantled a billion-dollar Asian boiler room gang. Gamble will discuss the gang's operations, including how they laundered money through Hong Kong banks and evaded detection for 15 years. He will also explain how the Anti-Money Laundering unit of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission helped recover millions for victims. The conference, held at the luxurious Siam Kempinski Hotel on February 28-29, includes various sessions on high-value international finance and will attract professionals from diverse fields like fraud investigation, asset recovery, banking, and law enforcement.

Boiler rooms are international fraud schemes that operate with near impunity while defrauding investors around the world of hundreds of millions of dollars each year. In this presentation, experts in both federal law enforcement and private investigations will share their unique perspectives on combating the issue. In the first part of the session, a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent will discuss how federal agents locate, gather evidence, and prosecute overseas boiler rooms, as well as share examples of successful cases. The Agent will also discuss how the modern day investigation requires a strong working relationship with the private banking industry as well as cooperation between multiple foreign governmental entities. In the second part of the session, a private investigator and internationally recognized expert in the field of boiler rooms will discuss how the Philippines and other parts of SE Asia are hotbeds of criminality, places where expatriate investment fraudsters operate boiler rooms as they set about swindling foreigners living in the world's major countries, many of whom are pensioners. In addition, the investigator will discuss who is responsible, pay-offs to police, judges, and others in authority, assaults, murders, and other related issues. The investigator will also show you how to use alternative methods to recover assets, thereby avoiding long and costly litigation in jurisdictions with poor judicial systems.

Thailand and other parts of Southeast Asia are hotbeds of criminality, places where expatriate investment fraudsters operate boiler rooms with seeming impunity as they set about swindling foreigners living in the world's major countries, many of whom are pensioners.

The Costa del Sol region in southern Spain is notorious as a place where mainly British expatriates operate fraudulent schemes with relative impunity. These schemes are targeted at non residents, including British pensioners, and take in tens of millions of