London Area, United Kingdom
I am a corporate global investigator specialising in cross‑border financial crime, sanctions evasion, and complex illicit networks operating through regulated financial systems. In my current role, I lead data‑led and intelligence‑driven investigations into sophisticated financial crime threats, including the misuse of correspondent banking, payment intermediaries, shell companies, and emerging payment technologies. My work sits at the intersection of financial crime intelligence, investigations, regulatory risk, and strategic decision‑making, supporting senior stakeholders on high‑impact risk issues across multiple jurisdictions. I have extensive experience analysing large‑scale transactional datasets, unstructured intelligence, and behavioural indicators to identify hidden risks. This includes uncovering indirect sanctions exposure, third‑party payment abuse, transshipment and trade‑based typologies, and networked activity spanning Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and emerging markets. My investigations are designed to be operationally actionable - informing client exits, control enhancements, intelligence alerts, and policy decisions - while maintaining strict confidentiality and discretion. I am particularly focused on how sophisticated actors adapt to regulatory pressure, and how institutions can move from reactive detection to earlier, intelligence‑led intervention.
Conduct in‑depth investigations and intelligence assessments on emerging risk patterns, cross‑border financial activity, and the misuse of products, services, or market infrastructure. Identify and evidence evolving behaviours and typologies, including: • Third‑party structures that obscure underlying activity or geography. • Rapid‑formation corporate networks with limited transparency. • Indirect or hard‑to‑detect exposure arising from geopolitical or market shifts. • Continued access to financial services through intermediated or alternative channels. Analyse large‑scale datasets across multiple markets, integrating transactional information, client profiles, behavioural indicators, and open‑source intelligence to uncover hidden relationships and network‑level activity. Produce senior‑stakeholder and regulator‑ready intelligence outputs, including investigative reports, thematic assessments, and strategic risk analysis. Convert investigative findings into practical outcomes such as risk‑mitigation actions, control enhancements, new detection approaches, and priority intelligence themes. Regularly brief senior leaders on material threats, structural vulnerabilities, and residual risk across regions.
Responsible for the investigation, detection and prevention of dishonesty-related crimes, including complex cases of bribery, corruption, false accounting, fraud, money laundering, perjury, perverting the course of justice and theft.
Force single point of contact for the lawful acquisition of communications data under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 ('RIPA').
Member of a small team which provided 24/7 intelligence support to real-time incidents occurring across the force area. This role also involved the quality assurance, development and dissemination of all force intelligence.