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“Heir Apparent” – the sixth Sam Plank novel
FREE Official Guide to the Sam Plank Mysteries – sample chapters and glossary
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“Faith, Hope and Trickery” – the fifth Sam Plank novel
New piggy in the sty! This one is for UK estate agents
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Collection of columns: “Susan in the City: The Cambridge News Years”
“Portraits of Pretence” – the fourth Sam Plank novel
Sam speaks! New audiobook of “Fatal Forgery”
“Worm in the Blossom” – the third Sam Plank novel
AML for NEDs in five editions: Guernsey, Isle of Man, International, Jersey and UK
AML books for UK staff
AML books for Guernsey staff
AML books for Jersey staff
AML books for Gibraltar staff
“The Man in the Canary Waistcoat” – the second Sam Plank novel
“Fatal Forgery” – the first Sam Plank novel
Edward’s adventures now out in 6-part e-format
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Category Archives: Fraud
Happy holidays!
Well hello everyone – I’m back. And while I was away on my hols, I did wonder whether taking time off in the summer was the responsible thing to do. As long ago as 1831, astronomer and statistician Adolphe Quetelet … Continue reading
A most tempting offer
The name of my company is the result of a family joke: my father observed one day that I was always thinking about crime. I wasn’t sure I’d be allowed to have the name but I was, and it’s memorable … Continue reading
Keep washing that money
This blog – much like its author – veers wildly between buoyancy and doom, and this week it’s the latter. Sorry about that. And it’s about the pestilence. Sorry about that too. But there’s no lock-down for criminality and I … Continue reading
Posted in AML, Due diligence, Fraud, Money laundering, Organised crime
Tagged AML, corruption, due diligence, FBI, financial crime, fraud, mafia, money laundering, organised crime, proceeds of crime, white collar crime
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The topic will be sin and that’s what I’m ag’in
At the beginning of April 2020 the UK’s National Crime Agency published its “National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2020”. Of course, much of this report looks at the damage being done by criminals but – as instructed … Continue reading
Free download of financial crime novel
Some of you may know that my obsession with financial crime spreads into my personal life, and that my hobby is writing historical financial crime novels. My first series is narrated by a magistrates’ constable in London in the 1820s, … Continue reading
Posted in Fraud, Money laundering, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged Amazon, banking, Fatal Forgery, fraud, money laundering
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Planes and pandemics
One of the challenges of AML work is keeping up with the endless adaptability and imagination of criminals. Unshackled by moral considerations, or by the need to report to risk committees or by the requirement to comply with legislation (quite … Continue reading
From little acorns
Apologies for the confusion at the start of my blog post on 4 September: I was not back at all, but actually watching elephants swimming in Botswana. I wrote a couple of posts in advance, to cover my absence, and … Continue reading
Posted in AML, Fraud, Money laundering
Tagged AML, due diligence, financial crime, money laundering, proceeds of crime, suspicion, training
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Words speaking louder than actions
Now I know it’s important to Think Big – to have goals and targets and ambition. But you can take it too far. And I rather think that in their recent “Economic Crime Plan 2019-2022” the joint forces of HMG … Continue reading
Money launder-gig
I’m always surprised – although I try not to show it – when people ask me how money laundering actually works, as there is an almost infinite number of ways in which criminals can move their money around. Invent a … Continue reading
Posted in Fraud, Money laundering, Organised crime
Tagged Airbnb, due diligence, financial crime, fraud, gig economy, money laundering, organised crime, proceeds of crime, suspicion, Uber
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Just do the math
I am currently reading “How Not to Be Wrong” by American mathematician Jordan Ellenberg. Not that I am wrong very often, of course, but it pays to protect one’s elevated position. In truth, I scraped by in my maths A-level, … Continue reading