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This session will look at Carousel VAT fraud schemes, including The mechanics of carousel VAT fraud schemes Regulatory and enforcement options The role of investigative and intelligence consultancies in the prevention,

In this session, leading whistleblower attorney Steve Kohn, who has represented UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld and the Danske Bank whistleblower, will discuss how whistleblowers in Europe and elsewhere can participate in and profit from U.S. whistleblower reward programs.

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

Investigators prefer to work in the shadows but neither they, nor their clients, nor the law firms that hire them can afford to ignore the law. In this session, investigators and an attorney will discuss the liabilities of

In this session, onshore and offshore insolvency practitioners and asset recovery specialists will discuss a high value, cross border case study. It will cover • Asset Tracing & Disclosure Discovery • Financing

The remarkable story of how a network of bankers, stock traders, and lawyers swindled Europe's taxpayers out of €55 billion in a scam involving dividend taxes, as exposed by a joint investigation by 19 European media from twelve countries, coordinated

The world's 'Big Four' accountancy firms PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and KPMG have become a gilded elite. Up in the high six figures, an average partner salary rivals that of a Premier League footballer. But

An introduction to the conference.

  Speakers Andrei Nekrasov, Film & TV Director & Writer, Independent Jamison Firestone, Managing Partner, Firestone Duncan (Russia & UK) Lucy Komisar, Investigative Journalist

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.

In the era of huge data leaks and e discovery, finding evidence that can be helpful in investigations and litigation support can be like looking for a needle in a haystack ... where it's difficult to see the wood for

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

In this session, whistleblowers' attorney Steve Kohn will discuss how his client, Howard Wilkinson, blew the whistle on his former employer, Denmark based Danske Bank, which has been implicated in a €200 billion Russian money laundering scandal and is now

This session will discuss emerging developments and issues concerning litigation funding around the world.

The definitive inside account of Malaysia's 1MDB scandal, which managed to swindle over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, exposing the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics. In 2009, with the

In this session, OffshoreAlert owner and editor David Marchant will explain how to identify red flags in investment schemes so you can avoid investing in, or providing services to, fraudulent schemes. OffshoreAlert has been exposing investment fraud relentlessly

In a landmark ruling for the Cayman Islands in May, 2018, the jurisdiction's Chief Justice dismissed rival multi-billion dollar claims in a dispute between a Saudi Arabian family and a Kuwait-born businessman. The case of 'Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Brothers Company v. Al-Sanea and others' involved allegations of a $126 billion fraud arising from one of the largest corporate collapses during the 2008 financial crisis. In his 1,300-page ruling, Chief Justice Anthony Smellie described the scheme at the heart of the dispute as "one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history". This session will analyze the long-running dispute, what it says about the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands' ability to handle complex litigation, the consequences of the judgment, and what it means for future litigation.

This session will look how litigation funding is changing the role of the private investigator and transforming the industry's traditional business model. No longer the supplicant supplier of information, investigators are now assuming greater risk and putting money

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. This session is intended to be informal and interactive and represents an

Emboldened by a legal victory against Google in 2014, which forced the search engine giant to remove defamatory information about him, Paris based attorney Dan Shefet is on a mission to protect the "personal integrity" of clients about whom negative

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. This session is intended to be informal and interactive and represents an

Investigators and others who specialize in offshore finance will discuss emerging key issues affecting the industry in the areas of transparency, beneficial ownership, products, services, trends, and anything else of importance and significance. The session will be informal and questions

In the early 1990s, Information Technology specialist Klaus Lins claimed to have discovered evidence that Liechtenstein's biggest fiduciary was misappropriating the assets of wealthy clients when they died, instead of distributing them to beneficiaries. Lins turned whistleblower but the only

Blockchain technology is rapidly evolving and creating a new genre of crypto crimes. These new schemes present unique challenges for law enforcement, regulators, and asset recovery specialists. This session will discuss the types of fraudulent crypto schemes out

In July, it was announced that leaders of tax enforcement authorities in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States had established a joint operational alliance, the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5), to increase collaboration

This session will look at - and seek to explain - the British obsession with cover-ups and whitewashes, as evidenced in recent years by farcical inquiries into matters such as phone-hacking, Hillsborough, and Jimmy Savile and a prevailing attitude of 'protect the establishment at all costs'. It will also look at the hypocrisy of British politicians who claim to advocate transparency and integrity, particularly for offshore financial centres, while practicing secrecy and deceit.

This session will look at compelling evidence of corruption within the British political system that results in Peerages and other honours being given to individuals based on their financial contributions, rather than merit.

There is compelling evidence that many of the world's leading banks pay lip service to compliance and, if fees are high enough, will knowingly engage in criminal activity on behalf of clients. In this session, two whistleblowers will discuss what really went on inside their former employers.

The Sunday Times' 'Insight' investigative unit receive a cache of hundreds of millions of secret documents from a whistleblower detailing corruption and bribery within football's world governing body, FIFA, that led to Qatar being awarded the 2022 World Cup. The Editor of that unit will discuss the investigation and the evidence.

Jurisdictions seldom, if ever, hold so-called professional, nominee or independent directors accountable for financial crimes committed by companies they are supposed to govern, no matter how asleep at the wheel they are. This session will look at whether they can ever be held accountable for negligence and, if yes, under what circumstances.

Journalists who specialize in investigating financial crimes discuss their work, the jurisdictions they cover, the scale of the problem, and impart advice on how to detect investment fraud.

This session will explain cutting-edge techniques and legal theories by which to prove fraud and fraudulent transfer, pierce the corporate veil, locate and seize assets, and enforce judgments.

This session will look at how to gather information on individuals and companies using open source data-gathering tools and how to interpret it.

A sickening child-abuse scandal, a U.S. journalist banned from the jurisdiction simply for trying to conduct an investigation, money laundering scandals, endemic corruption and cover-ups galore. Is Jersey truly immoral to a degree that is scarcely believable or is it misunderstood? An attorney who is based on the island reveals all.

A wrap-up of the conference's main talking points.

The panel will examine, compare and discuss the legal standards for piercing the corporate veil in respect of major litigation jurisdictions including the USA, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and the United Kingdom.

A look at how tax evasion and a fraud contributed to the economic crisis in Greece and lessons that can be learned by other countries.

This session will show you how to obtain discovery in the United States under 28 U.S.C. 1782 for use in legal actions outside the U.S.

The United Kingdom property market, particularly in London, has become a notorious money laundering tool for Russian oligarchs and other wealthy individuals in recent years. As a result, real estate prices have been surging and an increasing number of properties are owned through offshore entities. This session will delve into the phenomenon, including providing case studies of abuse, identifying individuals involved and discussing their methods.

A review of the first six years of the Commercial Court in the British Virgin Islands, which was set up to adjudicate in disputes arising from the jurisdiction's thriving international business sector.

An introduction to the conference, its aims and a breakdown of who is in attendance.

This session will look at how tens of billions of dollars of criminal proceeds from eastern Europe are laundered into the West, with the help of offshore structures and Russian banks owned by Vladimir Putin's cousin.