Michael
Milton
Director
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Michael Milton has global experience investigating fraud, corruption, money laundering, and crypto-related misconduct. An ACA-qualified accountant, he has acted as an expert affiant in a cryptocurrency case before the UK High Court and contributed to major matters, including a $1B Eastern European banking fraud investigation, multiple DOJ monitorships, and complex crypto cases, combining rigorous analysis with deep blockchain expertise.
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He specializes in forensic accounting, monitorships, and asset tracing, with a strong focus on blockchain analysis and cryptocurrency investigations. Michael has considerable experience working alongside regulators and enforcement authorities and has led multi-jurisdictional workstreams in support of independent compliance monitors.
His recent engagements include advising on investigations into the liquidation of a cryptocurrency platform, performing forensic analysis of suspicious fund flows, and serving as an expert on a cryptocurrency tracing matter. He brings together advanced technical knowledge and practical investigative insight to help clients address evolving financial crime risks.
Michael is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with Physics from the University of Sheffield, along with multiple certifications in cryptocurrency investigations, compliance, and digital forensics.
- Cryptocurrency Exchange: Supported the court-appointed liquidators of a bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, which included conducting a forensic lookback to identify suspicious fund flows indicating insider knowledge.
- Wash Trading Assessment: Assisted counsel of the co-founder of an altcoin to assess the veracity of allegations that the founders engaged in wash trading to inflate the amount of fees generated on the coin’s blockchain.
- Cryptocurrency Exchange: Currently supporting a multi-year US compliance monitorship of a global cryptocurrency exchange.
- Cryptocurrency Gambling Platform: Assisted counsel of a cryptocurrency gambling platform involved in a dispute with one of its customers.
- Cryptocurrency Expert Report: Served as the asset tracing expert for a cryptocurrency dispute involving the theft of cryptocurrency in a HNWI divorce matter.
- Ultra High Net Worth Individual: Supported a complex asset tracing exercise relating to UK High Court proceedings on behalf of an UHNW individual in fraud claims against a financial advisor.
- IAV GMBH: Supported FRA's DOJ monitorship in connection with “Dieselgate” and the conspiracy to defraud a US agency in connection with environmental regulations.
- NYSE-Listed Global Banking Group: Directed on-site workstreams across multiple site visits in support of the independent compliance monitor appointed under a DOJ deferred prosecution agreement, following identified AML and sanctions control failings at a global banking group.
- NYSE-Listed Financial Services Firm: Supported the independent compliance monitor appointed by the DOJ due to the firm's involvement in market misconduct in the US Treasury Markets, which involved detailed assessment of the bank's surveillance function.
- Revolution Beauty: Performed an independent investigation into concerns related to the acquisition of a supplier, loans to distributors and senior employees, and changes to the company’s accounting policies, resulting in resumption of audit work and lifting of the company’s AIM-listing suspension.
Biography
Michael Milton has global experience investigating fraud, corruption, money laundering, and crypto-related misconduct. An ACA-qualified accountant, he has acted as an expert affiant in a cryptocurrency case before the UK High Court and contributed to major matters, including a $1B Eastern European banking fraud investigation, multiple DOJ monitorships, and complex crypto cases, combining rigorous analysis with deep blockchain expertise.
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