Amina is a forensic accountant with 13 years of experience in matters involving fraud and corruption, regulatory litigation, and international commercial disputes across Europe, the US, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. She is efficient in combining data analysis tools into financial / accounting analysis to address complex issues such as sophisticated accounting schemes and the review of complex cross-border financial flows. ​

Amina’s experience includes multiple investigations into bribery and corruption, embezzlement, procurement fraud, accounting misstatements, and contractual breaches. For example, Amina recently led three investigations into allegations of fraud affecting revenue recognition for two pharmaceutical firms in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. She has also led two investigations into allegations of embezzlement within a telecom operator in Qatar, UAE and Tunisia. Amina was also part of the forensic accounting team who investigated allegations of bribery at Airbus for four years. This involved thorough accounting analyses to quantify payments and identify complex accounting schemes, as well as asset tracing throughout the globe.​

Amina has also evaluated seven companies through DOJ, PCAOB or French PNF compliance monitorships.These include an engineering company in the context of “Dieselgate”, a financial services institution inrelation to banking compliance issues, and oil and gas and manufacturing companies for FCPA breaches.These compliance reviews took place in US, Europe, Latin America and Africa.​

Finally, Amina has relevant experience evaluating illicit profits in the context of disgorgement calculations resulting from the prosecution of foreign bribery and corruption allegations. For example, Amina has performed intricate disgorgement calculations for a pharmaceutical company and presented complex calculations to Brazilian authorities in the context of the Car Wash scandal. This involved putting together various economic, financial and accounting scenarios and anticipating counter-arguments. ​

Prior to joining FRA, Amina worked at EY in their Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services practice, where she worked on a large-scale consulting project in Angola and gained experience in public finance monitoring and restructuring. Amina additionally has experience conducting financial audits under IFRS,French and US GAAP.​

Amina is a US Certified Public Accountant (CPA). She holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School, a master’s degree in Law (International Arbitration and Litigation) from the University of Paris-Saclay, and a bachelor’s degree in Civil Law. Amina is fluent in French, Arabic, English, Spanish and Portuguese.​