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GIR: Europe, Middle East and Africa Investigations Review 2022

June 7, 2022

Despite a global decrease in 2021 in AML enforcement actions and penalties, they more than tripled in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region from the year before. In this chapter published in GIR’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Investigations Review 2022 FRA authors; Charlie Steele, Bhavin Shah, Gerben Schreurs, Sarah Wrigley, and Deborah Luskin discuss the following points:

– Changing legislative environment in key jurisdictions
– Recent AML typology trends
– Push towards AML effectiveness and what it means for regulators and financial institutions
– Key elements that should be present in a robust AML programme

Download the full chapter here.

Accreditation: An extract from the 2022 edition of GIR’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa Investigations Review. The whole publication is available at: https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/review/the-european-middle-eastern-and-african-investigations-review/2022

Meet the Authors

Charlie Steele

Partner

Charlie Steele is a Partner in FRA’s Washington, DC office. Charlie is a former senior U.S. Treasury Department and Department of Justice official with more than 30 years of government […]

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Bhavin Shah

Partner

Bhavin is a Partner in FRA’s Dubai office. He has more than 18 years’ experience in professional services, focusing on Financial Institutions, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Investment Companies, Development Institutions, and […]

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Gerben Schreurs

Partner

Gerben Schreurs is a partner in FRA’s Zurich office and has over 25 years of experience solving technical challenges on complex problems requiring insight into large (un)structured data sets, including […]

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SWrigley

Sarah Wrigley

Director

Sarah is a Director in the Forensic Accounting team based in FRA’s London office. Sarah has 20 years’ experience of complex, often cross-jurisdictional investigations, covering financial crime, fraud, regulatory issues […]

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Deborah Luskin

Deborah Luskin

Associate Director

Deborah Luskin is an Associate Director in FRA’s Washington, DC office with over 13 years experience in auditing and consulting. Deborah has experience in forensic accounting, financial audit attestation, risk […]

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