Fraud Investigators
Litigation Funders
Insolvency Practitioners
Intelligence Gatherers
Litigators
Regulators & Law Enforcement
Investors
Directors & Officers
Professional Service Providers
Claimants
Investigative Journalists
“I’m excited to be bringing our unique combination of expertise, experience, originality, contacts, and fearlessness to a new group of people.”– David Marchant, OffshoreAlert founder, owner and editor
This session will look at an investigation by a small U.S. short-seller, Hindenburg Research, into Indian industrialist Gautam Adani, who at the time was considered to be Asia's richest person (and the third richest person in the world), a position he lost when his estimated net worth plummeted from $120 billion to $46 billion within three weeks of Hindenburg's allegations of accounting fraud and stock manipulation, while his Adani Group's market value fell by $134 billion during the same period.
This session will look at how 'Operation Tropicana', a joint operation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and IFW Global, an Australian intelligence, investigation, and asset recovery firm, that brought down a billion dollar boiler room gang without a single police officer being involved.
The presentation will identify the key players, how they laundered billions through Hong Kong banks, went undetected for 15 years, and how millions of dollars were recovered for victims using the powers of the MACC Anti-Money Laundering unit.
Twenty bank employees were also arrested and questioned about allegedly turning a blind eye to suspicious transactions.
This session will look at the potential problems faced by foreign investigators, intelligence-gatherers, data providers, due diligence firms, and consultants when conducting operations in China, particularly given high-profile incidents such as raids on the Chinese offices of Mintz Group, Capvision, and Bain and Company in 2023 and, 10 years before that, the arrests of British private investigator Peter Humphrey and his Chinese-American wife on suspicion of illegally acquiring personal data of a politically-connected Chinese citizen.
This session will look at the use of offshore structures in the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, and others by Asian High Net Worth Individuals and large corporations, as well as what goes on in regional Offshore Financial Centers like the Cook Islands, Labuan, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, and Vanuatu.
A demonstration of Internet-based tools to help you find, monitor, and understand information on targets.
In this session, litigation funders and asset recovery specialists will discuss the latest developments in litigation funding, including legal rulings that affect the industry, how to go about getting your claims funded, and the appetite for funding crypto-related claims.
This session will look at how artificial intelligence, including ChatGPT, can be used to enhance investigations and analyze data.
This session will look at the proliferation in S.E. Asia of 'Sha Zhu Pan' scams, a.k.a. 'Pig Butchering', by Chinese organized crime groups, which have taken over $1 billion already from U.S. victims; explain how they work, who is committing them, and what can be done to close them down and recover assets.
Leading experts in crypto investigations and recovery will offer tips and guidance on investigating and recovering crypto - an emerging industry that is awash with fraud.
Leading international fraud and value recovery specialists 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 opportunity for you to have your questions answered by experts who have 'been there, seen it, done it'.
This session will look at the prevalence of sports match-fixing in Asia, including some specific examples.
Leading international fraud and value recovery specialists 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 opportunity for you to have your questions answered by experts who have 'been there, seen it, done it'.
This session will look into the multi-billion dollar fraud, corruption, and money laundering scheme involving Malaysia's 1MDB, including how it happened and an update on attempts to recover value for victims and bring the scheme's fugitive alleged mastermind, Jho Low, to justice.
This session will look at the commercial spyware market.
In a survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong in 2021, more than 40% of expats indicated they were planning to leave Hong Kong or were considering it.
This session will discuss Hong Kong's future as a global financial centre, and whether regional rivals like Singapore have benefited from its problems.
In order to accommodate breaking developments, OffshoreAlert will fill this session at a later date.
"It's like that famous bar in 'Star Wars', where they all come together - the good guys, the bad guys, the seriously guilty - and they all exchange information on neutral territory."Jack Blum, financial crime lawyer, Washington, D.C., describing our event in The Wall Street Journal in 2009.