Post by Financial Crime Risk and Compliance - Vortex Centrum

It's 30 years since I published "How not to be a money launderer." This is the book that introduced what later became known as "The Risk Based Approach" and set out methods of laundering (and other offences) that others later misclassified as "Trade Based Money Laundering". It's the book that the chap who was drafting guidance for a South East Asian country asked his mother to get two copies of while she was in London (she later wrote me a lovely letter - he looked the other way when we were in the same room at a function). It's the book that someone who has since had a twenty plus-year career in training telephoned me about and said "I'm working for x (a training provider) and I know nothing about money laundering. Apparently yours is the book I need." It's the book that introduced the terms "hiding, moving and investing" instead of Placement, Layering and Integration - my terms are now often found in US government documents. It's the book that was the first book on money laundering risk and compliance in the library of The Law Society of England and Wales. It's the book that drew attention to the money laundering risks of real estate, school and medical fees and lawyers and to the prevalence of counterfeits in supply chains including aircraft maintenance. It's the book that identified sex tourism for the abuse of children as a financial crime. It's the book that first explained the financial crime risks prevalent on the internet. It's the book that introduced the idea that money laundering compliance systems should be audited. And yes. It was the first book with my name on the cover. Whatever you read today, this is where it began. In the meantime, I've written equally groundbreaking work on ISIS/Da'esh, on Understanding Suspicion in Financial Crime and Cleaning up the 'Net and two out of three volumes about Trade Based Financial Crime. Everything is original thought and interpretation and developing foresight that, in 10, 15 or 20 years someone else will say and those around that person will say "oh, that's good." Well, here's a hint: don't wait 10, 15 or 20 years and don't settle for a rehash of my work: read what I'm writing now. And what I wrote "then". I'm Nigel Morris-Cotterill. I make complicated stuff simple and I'm available for consultancy, training, paid-for mentoring and board-level strategy sessions, worldwide, as I have been since 1994. The book is, of course, out of print and out of stock but you can buy a personalised PDF of the original, 1996, print files and find out how it began and, equally importantly, benchmark how and why it's all gone so wrong. Buy now via stripe: https://lnkd.in/gHaCTR8k Information page: https://lnkd.in/gi2Qdm3g