14 th Annual Compliance & Economic Crime Symposium

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1 14 th Annual Compliance & Economic Crime Symposium A one-day conference at The Royal Yacht Hotel Tuesday 06 November hours CPD z Stephen Platt, Stephen Platt & Associates LLP (Chairman) z George Ren McEachern, Federal Bureau of Investigation (US) (Keynote speaker) z Clark S. Abrams, Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York (Keynote speaker) z Gretta Fenner, Basel Institute on Governance z Robert James MacRae QC, Law Officers Department z Chris Usher, Jersey International Business School z Barry Faudemer, Jersey Financial Services Commission z Sir Ivan Lawrence QC, University of Buckingham and BPP University z Kevin Newe, Her Majesty s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) z Helen Hatton, BDO Sator Regulatory Consulting

2 Agenda 08:30 09:00 REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS 09:00 09:15 Stephen Platt (Chairman) Principal of Stephen Platt & Associates LLP Opening address 09:15 10:00 10:00 10:45 George Ren McEachern (Keynote speaker) Supervisory Special Agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Clark S. Abrams (Keynote speaker) Chief, Money Laundering and Financial Investigations Unit at the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York Grand Corruption - Why don t the bribe takers ( the kleptocrats ) get targeted? Following the money; how financial services businesses can help prosecutors to crack down on the global drugs trade 10:45 11:00 BREAK 11:00 11:45 11:45 12:30 Robert James MacRae QC, HM Attorney General for Jersey at the Law Officers Department Gretta Fenner, Managing Director of Basel Institute on Governance Panel discussion with Stephen Platt, Clark S. Abrams, Chris Usher, George Ren McEachern and Helen Hatton International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) how Jersey supports the fight against financial crime Russia how corruption, sanctions and organised crime intersect 12:30 13:45 LUNCH 13:45 14:30 14:30 15:15 Barry Faudemer Director of Enforcement at Jersey Financial Services Commission Sir Ivan Lawrence QC Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Buckingham and BPP University Where did it all go wrong? Case studies in regulatory failure Will the fight against financial crime ever be won? Why victory is essential 15:15 15:30 BREAK 15:30 16:15 16:15 17:00 Kevin Newe Assistant Director Criminal Finances Strategy lead, Fraud Investigation Service Helen Hatton Managing Director Risk Advisory Services at BDO Sator Regulatory Consulting HMRC s approach to offshore tax evasion Practical tips for building a robust operational GRC programme Submit your questions via our interactive mobile app Audience interaction is guaranteed with our audience participation tool Sli.do. This tool can be accessed via the App Store on ios and the Google Play Store on Android devices, or online at You can vote on poll questions from the speakers and also ask questions anonymously and these will appear on the screen at the end of each presentation. Speakers slides Electronic copies of our speakers slides are available for 7 days after the event. These will be made available on the day of the event for you to download in full high-quality resolution on your laptops, tablets or mobile devices to follow and make notes. Details: Date: Tuesday 06 November 2018 Venue: The Royal Yacht Hotel Times: 09:00-17:00 (registration from 08:30) Price: 445 CPD: 7 hours Discounts: 20% for JCOA members 10% for ICA, KYC360, Jersey Chamber, JADO, JBA, IoD and STEP members Booking details: To book visit jibs-events

3 Meet the Chairman & Keynote speakers Stephen Platt (Chairman) Principal Stephen Platt & Associates LLP Stephen Platt is one of the world s most experienced practitioners in the conduct of regulatory investigations. He is widely regarded as a leading expert in the criminal abuse of financial services and related regulatory issues with particular specialisms in anti-money laundering, sanctions and US extraterritoriality. Stephen is an English barrister and a visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. His practice is international. Among the numerous high-profile matters that he has been involved in over the last 2 decades are Arch Cru, Belgravia, R2R, Abacha, Maluf, Bhutto, Standard Chartered Trust Co, Anchor Trust, Caversham & Bell, and a whole host of others, less well publicised. When not practising, he is much sought after as an accomplished speaker on the criminal abuse of financial services and regulation. He has trained the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Treasury, numerous US law enforcement agencies, Europol, the Metropolitan Police and several regulatory authorities. He has spoken at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Cambridge Economic Crime Symposium, the European Parliament, the UN, the UNODC and the World Bank. George Ren McEachern (Keynote speaker) Supervisory Special Agent Federal Bureau of Investigation (US) Supervisory Special Agent George McEachern has worked in law enforcement since 1995 and entered on duty with the FBI in Supervisory Special Agent McEachern is an FBI-certified subject matter expert in international corruption and has served in Tampa, Boston, and the Washington Field Office. In 2013, Supervisory Special Agent McEachern was selected to the FBI s International Corruption Unit, where he managed the FBI s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) global investigations program and helped architect the FBI International Corruption Squads based in Washington, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, San Francisco, Boston and New Orleans. Currently, Supervisory Special Agent McEachern supervises the Washington Field Office International Corruption Squad with a focus on FCPA, International Money Laundering, Kleptocracy and Antitrust investigations. Supervisory Special Agent McEachern is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). Clark S. Abrams (Keynote speaker) Chief, Money Laundering and Financial Investigations Unit Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York At the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, Clark Abrams investigates and prosecutes money laundering cases, and trains, assists, and advises prosecutors. He also sits on the Office s committee that approves and reviews undercover money laundering operations. Including positions with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Manhattan District Attorney s Office, he has spent over 25 years handling international money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and financial crime cases. A frequent speaker, he has served on various Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Working Groups, was trained as a Mutual Evaluation Assessor for the Recommendations, and is a founding member of the New York City Bar Association s Compliance Committee.

4 Meet the speakers Gretta Fenner Managing Director Basel Institute on Governance Gretta is the Managing Director of the Basel Institute on Governance, where she also holds the position of Director of the Institute s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). At ICAR, she oversees and directs the advice provided by a team of law enforcement and legal practitioners to ICAR s partner countries in the investigation and prosecution of complex international anti-corruption and money laundering cases, with the ultimate purpose of recovering stolen public assets to their country of origin. She is a political scientist by training and holds a BA (Hons) and MA from the Free University Berlin and the Paris Institute for Political Science, as well as an MBA from Curtin University Graduate School of Business, Australia. Robert James MacRae QC HM Attorney General for Jersey Law Officers Department Robert MacRae was appointed Her Majesty s Attorney General for Jersey in May The Attorney General of Jersey heads the Island s independent prosecution service. He is also the body responsible for giving and seeking mutual legal assistance to overseas judicial and law enforcement agencies in criminal cases. One of the priorities for the Attorney General of Jersey is to ensure that money laundering cases are investigated and prosecuted swiftly and that the fruits of money laundering and fraud are confiscated. In the past decade Jersey has achieved a number of notable successes in prosecuting fraud and money laundering cases. Mr MacRae will discuss one such case, the work of the new Economic Crime and Confiscation Unit and Jersey s new Civil Asset Forfeiture Law. Sir Ivan Lawrence QC Visiting Professor of Law University of Buckingham and BPP University Sir Ivan has been practising at the Criminal Bar for 56 years (37 of them as Queen s Counsel and 19 years as a Crown Court Recorder). He has defended in over 90 murder trials, including those of the Kray twins, the serial killer Denis Nilsen and Russell Bishop, charged with the Babes in the Wood murder. Other notorious trials have concerned the Brinks-Mat gold bullion robbery, rape alleged against a prominent sportsman, and Yugoslav war crimes. He is active in international human rights, is a Master Bencher of the Inner Temple (and an advocacy trainer), a Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies, was formerly an elected member of the Bar Council, and is a Visiting Professor of the Law at the University of Buckingham and BPP University. He was admitted as Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) in He was Conservative MP for Burton for 23 years, and served on parliamentary committees on employment, social services, foreign affairs and crime, and successfully campaigned for tape-recorded interviews of suspects. He was elected Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK Branch), a member of the Executive Committee of Conservative backbenchers, and Vice-President of the Society of Conservative Lawyers. His Private Members Bill initiated the National Lottery. He is a Freeman of the City of London, and was knighted in 1992 for political service. He has campaigned prominently for the improvements in criminal justice and for the survival of the independent publicly-funded Criminal Bar.

5 Helen Hatton Managing Director Risk Advisory Services BDO Sator Regulatory Consulting Helen Hatton is the Managing Director of BDO Sator Regulatory Consulting Limited and Chairman of BDO Group based in Jersey. Helen maintains key client relationships and oversight responsibility for all major projects. She is a retained and trusted advisor to a number of major institutions in Jersey and internationally. Widely recognised as the prime architect of the modern Jersey regulatory regime, Helen Hatton resigned as Deputy Director General of the Jersey Financial Services Commission in May 2009 to establish Sator Regulatory Consulting Limited, having led the implementation of regulatory development in the Island from its blacklisted state in 1999 to achieving one of the world s best IMF evaluation results. Prior to taking up her role in Jersey, Mrs Hatton was director of enforcement with the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission from , introducing the first offshore all crimes money laundering regime in 1997 and, notably, achieving the world s first freestanding offshore Mareva injunction without a local cause of action in the case SIB-v-Lloyd Wright. This milestone case brought an effective end to banking secrecy in the Crown Dependencies. Barry Faudemer Director of Enforcement Jersey Financial Services Commission Barry Faudemer is a member of the Executive Board and has been the Director of Enforcement at the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) since During that time Barry has participated in hundreds of complex regulatory investigations and given evidence in several significant financial crime-related criminal prosecutions. He has also been at the forefront of developing the JFSC s approach to settlement agreements and the introduction in 2015 of legislation enabling the regulator to impose civil penalties. Barry has 37 years of Law Enforcement/Regulatory experience. Prior to joining the JFSC, he was the Head of the Police and Customs Joint Financial Crime Unit and graduated from the FBI National Academy in 2006 having studied financial crime and the funding of terrorism. Barry is the Chairman of the tripartite group consisting of representatives from the JFCU, Law Officers Department and the JFSC. The tripartite group meets whenever a case emerges that has both a regulatory and criminal nexus. Barry is also a founder member of the Jersey Fraud Prevention Forum and acts as the JFSC s representative on the National Fraud Intelligence Network FIN-NET. Kevin Newe Assistant Director Criminal Finances Strategy lead, Fraud Investigation Service Her Majesty s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Kevin joined HMRC in 2006 with early roles in communications and change management. A 2008 secondment to the Serious Organised Crime Agency exposed Kevin to the importance of understanding and tackling Criminal Finances. On his return to HMRC in 2010, Kevin took up a Criminal Finances policy role and was responsible for drafting guidance as the Proceeds of Crime Act developed. In 2014 Kevin took up an operational post, managing approximately 90 financial investigators and financial intelligence officers, delivering multi-million pound confiscation and cash forfeiture work. In January 2018 Kevin was promoted to lead on Criminal Finances strategy, and developed a step change in responding to illicit financial flows. Kevin was HMRC s representative during the UK s FATF Mutual Evaluation Review in March 2018.

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