3-5 Day Course

This course looks at how terrorists, cartels, and other transnational criminal organizations, PEPs, sanctions evaders, and North Korean cyber hackers, among others, hide, launder, and move their ill-gotten gains. The training explores traditional money laundering techniques, micro-structuring techniques, multiple trade-based laundering techniques such as black-market peso exchange, Chinese mirror trades, Iranian and DPRK ledger systems, the use of virtual assets, shell companies, as well as different fraud typologies and crypto scams. The financial provisions of the USAPATRIOT Act and international frameworks are also discussed.

For military audiences, the course also examines how money laundering activities impact military operations and national security, as well as how to apply financial levers at the Tactical, Operational, and Strategic levels.

For the civilian intelligence community, there is slightly more emphasis on what Russian, Chinese, and North Korean actors are doing in the sanctions evasion and proliferation financing space.

For law enforcement and prosecutors, in addition to the typologies, there is more emphasis on intelligence collection and sharing, including cross-border cooperation.

For private sector fintech companies, the emphasis is on understanding the typologies, incorporating red flags into machine learning algorithms, and knowing when to reach out to law enforcement.