Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Virtual Assets

Duncan Smith was the Deputy Head of Fraud Investigations at the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Luxembourg. He was responsible for policy, outreach and training. He has undertaken many investigations and resolved numerous high-profile cases. Duncan previously worked in a similar role at the World Bank Investigations Unit in Washington DC (USA) and has been a member of the Secretariat of the Conference for International Investigators from 2001 to 2017. He is a qualified barrister and prior to his international career, he worked in London at the DTI and Serious Fraud Office.Duncan has written a number of recent articles for FCPA Blog and the Basel Institute on Governance and contributes to EIB Investigations’ annual Activity Report (published on EIB’s website). He has given presentations to many different audiences including students, practitioners and others at the Sorbonne and Cambridge Universities, ECB, OECD, American & International Bar Associations, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and various conferences.

• Introduction.- Definitions of money laundering in Different Jurisdictions.- More on Money Laundering.- Common Schemes and Red Flags of Money Laundering.- Corporate and Other Controls.- More on Terrorist Financing.- New frontiers for Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing: i) crypto-currency, ii) DeFi and iii) NFT.- Supervision & Regulation, Investigation and Prosecution.- Money Laundering: UK and Scandinavian cases.- Money Laundering: Other cases.- Terrorist Financing.- Violating Economic Sanctions.- Virtual Assets.- International Materials.- National Materials.- Conclusion.