Laura
Bucur
Associate Director
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Laura Bucur applies forensic accounting and external audit expertise to manage regulatory compliance reviews and risk assessments, fraud investigations, and disputes. She specializes in anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, sanctions, and the design and evaluation of compliance programs, including financial and non-financial internal control frameworks. She also provides accounting and financial analysis for disgorgement calculations in regulatory matters.
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Prior to joining FRA, Laura worked in the forensics team of Ernst & Young in London and Deloitte in Bucharest, gaining experience in sectors such as life sciences, public services, retail, media and financial services. Laura also worked as part of the consequential loss review team on a disputes advisory project dealing with alleged fraud and misselling of Interest Rate Hedging Products at a major British retail bank under s.166 of the Financial Services and Markets Act. Laura holds an LLB in Law and Criminology from the University of Manchester and a master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratization.
- Binance: Supporting the DOJ monitorship of a global digital asset exchange, assessing the company’s compliance with AML and US sanctions laws.
- ABB: Supported Swedish-Swiss multinational ABB in reviewing and enhancing its internal controls as part of remediation discussions with the DOJ.
- Airbus: Supported the multi-year, multinational investigation, resulting in a EUR 3.6b settlement with four investigative authorities: the UK SFO, the US DOJ and DOS, and the French PNF.
- Payment Services Company: Led a governance, risk management and internal controls review enforced by the Central Bank of Ireland for a payment services firm in line with PSD2 regulatory requirements and anti-money laundering requirements, followed by a safeguarding arrangements review under the PSR requirements and a follow-up corrective actions implementation review.
- Cryptocurrency Exchange: Currently supporting a multi-year US compliance monitorship of a global cryptocurrency exchange.
- Global Telecommunications Company: Conducted an assessment of the company's sanctions and export controls program to ensure compliance related to its cloud services agreement with a software provider.
- Chemicals Distributor: Supported a chemicals distributor with operations in 150+ countries with an internal investigation across multiple high-risk jurisdictions, as well as the design and implementation of a global sanctions and ABAC compliance program.
- Digital Marketing Company: Working alongside the General Counsel, drafted and supported the roll-out of a complete suite of company-wide compliance policies.
- Electricity Distribution Company: Led a culture of compliance assessment and anti-bribery and corruption compliance program review for a large Eastern European electricity distribution company, including governance arrangements at Board and senior management level.
- BAT: Provided accounting and financial analysis support for a disgorgement calculation related to historical North Korea sanctions violations for BAT as part of the combined DOJ and OFAC settlement in April 2023.
- Insurance Company: Supported a regulatory investigation into whistleblower allegations of non-financial misconduct.
Biography
Laura Bucur applies forensic accounting and external audit expertise to manage regulatory compliance reviews and risk assessments, fraud investigations, and disputes. She specializes in anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, sanctions, and the design and evaluation of compliance programs, including financial and non-financial internal control frameworks. She also provides accounting and financial analysis for disgorgement calculations in regulatory matters.
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