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Fireside chat: How vital a source of intelligence are SARs for law enforcement agencies?

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Location: Live Online

Submitting a SAR provides law enforcement agencies with valuable information about potential criminality. It can also protect you and the organisation from prosecution in respect to money laundering and facilitating the proceeds of crime. SARs are a key tool in the fight against financial crime.

In discussion with highly experienced current and former international senior law enforcement representatives, our Executive Director, Helen Hatton, will explore just how vital a source of intelligence SARs are for law enforcement agencies. Sharing their decades of experience at the highest-ranking levels, our expert-speakers will provide practical advice on how to submit effective SARs and how to spot common red flags.

Speakers
Helen Hatton: Director at the School of International Financial Services

Helen is a well-known figure in the offshore world and is widely recognised as the prime architect of the Jersey regulatory regime. She was Director of Enforcement for the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission; Deputy Director General, Jersey Financial Services Commission and founder of Sator Regulatory Consulting Limited and KYC Worldwide. Helen merged Sator with BDO in 2016 and became BDO Sator MD and BDO Group Chairman from 2016-2021. She has undertaken a wide range of major, international fact finding mandates including those for the World Bank, IMF, FATF, Commonwealth Secretariat, the UK Foreign Office and a fistful of Central Banks, regulatory authorities and governments. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Royal Society of Arts, and sits on the Editorial Board of the International Banker.

Helen holds non-executive appointments at Santander International, Jersey Post International Limited, Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner, and is a Shareholder and Director of KnowYourCountry.Com and the School of International Financial Services. Helen is Executive Chairman of Central Associates Limited, a London based, family owned and relationships driven, investigations, intelligence and surveillance company.

Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe, QPM: Former Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police Force

Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe was the most senior police officer in the UK. He led the Metropolitan Police, an organisation of 50,000 people with a budget of £3.2 billion providing a service for the 8.6 million people of London. He had national responsibilities, including leading counter terrorism policing throughout the UK and protecting the Royal Family and government.

As Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Chief Constable of Merseyside he delivered significant reductions in crime. In London he uniquely maintained police officer numbers despite a budgetary loss of £600 million.

Lord Hogan-Howe has extensive experience of policing major public events, many during a threat level of 'severe'. These include the successful 2012 Olympics Games, 2008 Liverpool European City of Culture, State Visits, The State Opening of Parliament,, major sporting events and political protests on the streets of London. While in charge of the Metropolitan Police he created the largest Cyber Crime Squad in Europe to help investigate online financial crime.

Shlomit Wagman: Faculty Associate at Harvard Law School, Former Chair of Israel FIU

Dr. Shlomit Wagman served as the Director-General of the Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority (IMPA), a financial regulator and law enforcement agency, from 2016 to 2022, and as the Acting Director-General of the Israel Privacy Protection Authority from 2019 to 2021.

She was the Head of the Israeli delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing watchdog from 2016 to 2022, and also served as a Co-Chair of its operational working group, a member of the Steering Group, and was a nominee for Presidency.

She led major national reforms, most recently regulating cryptocurrencies, and the historic accession of Israel to the FATF as a member country after an evaluation process in which Israel was placed among the top three most effective countries in the world. Under her leadership, IMPA doubled its size and exposed hundreds of money laundering and terrorism financing cases, leading to the crackdown on major criminal organizations and the seizure of billions of illicit funds. IMPA further received various awards, including the Egmont's Global Best Financial Investigation (2016, 2021) and recognition by the FATF as one of the three most effective FIUs worldwide.

Phil Hunkin: Director, Financial Intelligence Unit at Isle of Man Government

Phil was appointed as Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit in November 2019. Previously Phil was an Assistant Chief Officer of the Guernsey Border Agency and was Head of the Economic Crime Division for 8 years this included Guernsey's FIU. More recently, from August 2017 until November 2019, he was Head of the Cook Islands Financial Intelligence Unit. The Cook Islands FIU is responsible for FIU functions, financial transaction reporting and AML/CFT compliance. Phil completed Moneyval's 5th round training seminar for evaluators in 2015 and in 2018 was part of the Asia Pacific Groups (APG) mutual evaluation team of the Solomon Islands, as the Law Enforcement and FIU expert. Phil also led on Law Enforcement and FIU responses for Guernsey's mutual evaluations by the IMF in 2010 and Moneyval in 2014. He also contributed to the APG's mutual evaluation of the Cook Islands. Phil has extensive international experience and has served as acting chair of the Egmont Groups Training Working Group and as a vice chair of the Technical Assistance and Training Working Group. He held the role of Egmont's BECA coordinator for 9 years. Phil also contributes as a Moneyval AML/CFT expert and has been involved with the APG experts meetings. Other international work includes 10 years as a member of Camden Asset Recovery Inter-agency Network.

Thomas Tunbridge: Detective Chief Inspector at Royal Gibraltar Police

Biography to follow.

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