COMPLEX FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS COURSE

Presented by FBI, IRS, DHS

Summary

The course will provide participants with a better understanding of current investigative strategies and techniques used to conduct complex financial investigations relating to international criminal activities. Participants will be tasked to present investigative and/or legal matters and situations both common within Southeast Asia and unique to their particular nation. Utilizing case studies and practical exercises, instructors will attempt to increase investigative effectiveness.

Course Objectives:

• Participants will be able to define international money laundering, cite the steps in the money laundering process, and learn money-laundering techniques.

• Participants will learn the advantages of implementing anti-money laundering legislation and how money laundering can be detrimental to a nation’s security.

• Participants will discuss international banking and financial transactions, international transfers of money, and traditional banking systems.

• Participants will learn financial investigative techniques, such as locating, obtaining and developing documentary evidence to prove unreported income, uncovering concealed assets, direct and indirect methods of proof, tracking income, and determining net worth.

• Participants will be able to articulate and explain the indicators of hidden ownership.

• Participants will become conversant with terminology relating to international banking, money laundering, asset forfeiture, and financial investigations.

• Participants will become acquainted with the records that businesses, banks and other financial institutions maintain during the normal course of business. Participants will also be able to identify repositories of the above records and explain how to obtain and exploit these records.

· Participants will discuss elements of required proof in international and country- specific investigations.