Biography

Yasmine Ben Achour joined FRA at the beginning of 2017. She is a Manager in FRA’s Forensic Accounting team and is based in FRA’s Paris office.

At FRA, Yasmine has recently worked on a major anti-bribery and corruption investigation for a global manufacturing organization. In 2018, Yasmine assisted Counsel through the first French Anti-corruption Agency compliance monitorship on a review which included the collection and analysis of financial and accounting data, high-risk transaction testing and interviews.

Yasmine was part of the FRA team supporting Airbus in a multi-year forensic accounting and eDiscovery review within the context of the company’s multinational investigation, reporting to four investigative authorities: UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the US Department of State (DOS) and French Parquet National Financier (PNF). Yasmine’s team focused on a risk assessment and evaluation of the company’s anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) global compliance program.

Before joining FRA Yasmine interned in a number of Parisian law firms gaining experience in a number of different industries and sectors.

Yasmine holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Law, a Master’s degree in Business Law from Paris II Panthéon-Assas University (Paris, France) as well as a Master of Science in Management (Corporate finance Major) from ESSEC Business School (Cergy, France).

Authority experience

US Department of Justice (DOJ)
Serious Fraud Office (SFO)
Parquet National Financier (PNF)
Agence Française Anticorruption (AFA)
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

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Languages

English
French
Tunisian

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