How to get-rich-quick in Eastern Europe
From OffshoreAlert
How easy is it to become a billionaire in eastern Europe? Comically so, as evidenced by the theft of $1 billion from Moldova’s three biggest banks in 2014. Incredibly, the suspected mastermind – 28-year-old Ilan Shor – was subsequently elected to public office in the country.
The chaotic nature of eastern European economies and how they are plundered by crooks who typically spend their fortunes in the West – aided and abetted by bankers and professional service providers – will be examined at next month’s OffshoreAlert Conference in London.
Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu, both of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, will present a session entitled ‘The $1 B Moldova Bank Fraud Et Al: How Eastern European Crime Proceeds Are Laundered Into The West’.
Other sessions will deal with how to recover assets in cases like the Moldova Bank Fraud and substantially profit from it, either as an investor or an investigator.
With a theme of ‘financial intelligence and investigations’, The OffshoreAlert Conference will examine a broad range of topics and issues that affect investigators, providers and buyers of international financial products and services, particularly those involving offshore jurisdictions.
The aim is to arm attendees with knowledge and information that will help them make better business decisions in the amoral, unforgiving, cut-throat world of international finance.
Among the 30-plus speakers from the BVI, Cayman Islands, Jersey, Isle of Man, Bosnia and Herzegovina, England, France, Greece, Latvia, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Ukraine and the USA, including Jonathan Calvert, Editor of The Sunday Times’ ‘Insight Investigations Team’; British Virgin Islands Commercial Judge Barry Leon, Angus MacNeil MP, bank whistleblowers Stephanie Gibaud and John Christmas, investigative journalist Tony Hetherington, corporate database specialists Chris Taggart, of OpenCorporates, and Eduardo Amo, of Dato Capital; Haris Theoharis, who until recently had the difficult task of overseeing tax collection in Greece, and Jersey-based lawyer Philip Sinel.
Sessions include:
FIFA corruption: The Qatari Plot To Buy The World Cup;
Jersey Uncovered: Inside One Of The World’s Leading Offshore Jurisdictions;
Advanced Techniques In Asset Investigation & Debt Enforcement;
Detecting Investment Fraud: Tips From Investigative Journalists;
The $1B Moldova Bank Fraud Et Al: How Eastern European Crime Proceeds Are Laundered Into The West;
How Corruption, Fraud & Tax Evasion Led To Catastrophe in Greece;
Web-Sites That Short Stocks & Then Expose Them: Are They Making Money?;
Litigating In The BVI: The Commercial Court’s First Six Years;
Bitcoin: Fact, Fiction & Fraud;
Piercing The Corporate Veil: How Jurisdictions Differ;
How Crime & Secretive Offshore Firms Are Behind London’s Property Boom;
Using 1782 To Obtain Evidence In The USA For Your Foreign Proceeding;
The Hunt For Data: Open Source Intelligence Tools & Techniques;
Professional, Nominee & Independent Directors: Are They Untouchable?
Whistleblowers discuss What Really Goes On Inside International Banks; and
Cash For Honours: An Ongoing, Very British Scandal.
The OffshoreAlert Conference provides a unique opportunity to network with an eclectic group of participants who are involved in high-value financial transactions.
There will be asset managers, asset tracers, bankers, company managers, trust officers, fraud investigators, directors, officers, and a lot more – essentially anyone who understands the value of information in international finance.
The 4th Annual OffshoreAlert Conference Europe will be held at The Grange St. Paul’s Hotel, in London, on November 23-24.
View the agenda here: http://www.offshorealert.com/conference/london/schedule/
