Speakers

Chong Kin Leong
Executive Vice President, Finance, Genting Bhd
Malaysia

Mr. Chong Kin Leong, aged 47, is the Executive Vice President, Finance of Genting Berhad, where he is responsible for Genting’s financial, treasury, accounting and taxation management at its head office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He began his professional career with an international accounting firm in Kuala Lumpur in 1981 and joined Sime Darby Berhad in 1985 before leaving to join the RHB Group in 1993. He joined Genting Berhad in 2003 after serving the RHB Group for more than 9 years. He holds a Bachelor of Accounting (Honours) degree from the University of Malaya, and is a Member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Dato Anuar Bashah Mohd Sohore
Bank Negara Malaysia
Malaysia

Dato’ Anuar Bashah has served as a Police Officer for the past 32 years before joining the Financial Intelligence Unit, Central Bank of Malaysia. During his service with the police force he has served various division including Logistics, Training and Special Branch. He was also the OCPD officer in-charge to Police District. He graduated from the Police College with Police Science and The Military College with PFC. He is also the Vice-Chairman for the Stamp Club Malaysia and the President of the Orchid Society of Malaysia.

  David Caruso
CEO & Managing Director, Dominion Advisory Group
USA

David Caruso is the CEO of the Dominion Advisory Group, a premier provider of Anti Money Laundering and Investigations solutions.

Dominion assists U.S. and international financial institutions in developing, implementing and testing comprehensive AML programs designed to address the unique risk of each client, and to satisfy the expectations of banking and securities regulators.

Dominion also assists corporations and law firms by conducting independent investigations to uncover and fully understand issues of fraud and abuse.

Prior to forming The Dominion Advisory Group in May, 2005, Caruso was the Executive Vice President, Compliance & Security of Riggs Bank NA. In June 2003 he was hired to build a regulatory compliance, investigations, and security department in response to 2003 enforcement action against Riggs. Mr. Caruso led the development and implementation of a BSA/AML program across all consumer, commercial, investment, and international business lines. Mr. Caruso was responsible for reporting on the bank's efforts to resolve its regulatory challenges to the Board of Directors, senior examination and headquarters staff of the OCC and Federal Reserve, senior law enforcement officials and the staff of several Congressional committees.

While at Riggs Mr. Caruso oversaw the investigation of Augusto Pinochet's alleged money laundering and the corruption involving senior government officials of Equatorial Guinea.

Prior to joining Riggs, Mr. Caruso was a director at two big four accounting firms where he led anti-money laundering compliance and fraud investigations practices. Prior to consulting, Mr. Caruso was the manager of the anti-money laundering and enhanced due diligence group at JP Morgan & Company.

Mr. Caruso began his career as a Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service where he was assigned to the New York Field Office's Financial Institution Fraud group. He received his BA from the George Washington University.

David Chong
Senior Partner, David Chong & Co.,
Singapore/ Chairman, Portcullis TrustNet Group
Singapore

David is the founder of the Portcullis Group of companies which in late 2004 acquired the TrustNet Group. He is the Senior Partner of David Chong & Co, Singapore and a director of Portcullis TrustNet (Singapore) Pte Ltd. He is qualified as a Barrister of England, as an Advocate & Solicitor of Singapore, Malaya, Brunei, as a Solicitor in Australia and as Barrister & Solicitor of the British Virgin Islands. David holds a Master's Degree in Law and a Master's Degree in Business and was a lecturer at the National University of Singapore for 3 years. He was the first President of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners in Singapore and is the current President for the Malaysia STEP Chapter.

David Cope
Detective Chief Inspector, Financial Investigations, Narcotics Bureau, Hong Kong Police
Hong Kong SAR

Detective Chief Inspector David Cope has served in the Hong Kong Police since 1989, he has been investigating financial crimes since 1994 and has served in the Commercial Crime Bureau, Organized Crime and Triad Bureau and Narcotics Bureau of the Hong Kong Police.

Mr. Cope is currently the deputy head of the Hong Kong Joint Financial Intelligence Unit and in charge of its day-to-day business. Mr. Cope holds a law degree and has presented widely on financial crime and money laundering both in Hong Kong and in numerous other jurisdictions including Singapore.

Eric Chan
Director, International & Regional, External Dept.,
Monetary Authority of Singapore
Singapore

Eric Chan is Director (International & Regional Relations) in the External Department of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

In this capacity, Eric is responsible for policy development work in the field of anti-money laundering and countering terrorist financing (AML/CFT). He also represents the MAS in the Singapore Delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

As a member of the Singapore Delegation to the FATF, Eric was involved in the development and adoption of the FATF’s 2004 Assessment Methodology. In January 2005, he also participated in the FATF’s Mutual Evaluation of Norway as a financial expert. In February 2006, he served on the FATF’s Expert Review Group to review the FATF’s mutual evaluation reports on Ireland and Sweden.

Eric is a qualified lawyer and a member of the Singapore bar. He holds an LL.B. from the National University of Singapore, and an LL.M. in Banking and Financial Law from University College London.

Eric joined the MAS in August 1999 and held the position of Assistant General Counsel before he assumed his present responsibilities within the External Department in December 2003.

Gregory A. Baldwin
Partner, Holland & Knight LLP, Miami, USA

Greg Baldwin has specialized in anti-money laundering since 1982, when he became an anti-money laundering prosecutor for the U.S. government in Miami, Florida, with "Operation Greenback," the first federal multi-agency anti-money laundering prosecution task force in the United States. He served as Chief of Operation Greenback in 1985 and 1986. Mr. Baldwin joined the law firm of Holland and Knight in 1986, and was made a partner in 1989. He continues to specialize in anti-money laundering, particularly the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Bank Secrecy Act and the Money Laundering Control Act. He also specializes in anti-money laundering compliance program development and implementation. Mr. Baldwin is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and a member of the American Bar Association Task Force on the Gatekeeper Initiative. Mr. Baldwin received his law degree from Cornell Law School in 1974. Between 1974 and 1979 Mr. Baldwin served as a federal organized crime prosecutor, and from 1980 to 1982 he was Assistant Counsel to the United States Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations.

  Ian Wong
Assistant Director, Financial Investigation Division, Commercial Affairs Department
Singapore

Mr Ian Wong holds a Law Degree (Honours) from the National University of Singapore. He has been with the Commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore Police Force since 1992.

Mr Wong is currently an Assistant Director in the Commercial Affairs Department. He is in charge of the Financial Investigation Division, which enforces the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regime in Singapore.

Mr Wong also oversees the Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office, which is the central agency in Singapore for the receipt and analysis of Suspicious Transaction Reports.

Jacqueline Yao
Senior Inspector, Commercial Crime Unit, Hong Kong Police
Hong Kong SAR

Jacqueline Yao, a Senior Inspector with the Hong Kong Police Force specializes in criminal intelligence work. She brings with her 15 years of experience and knowledge in the criminal investigation field.

Since joining the force in 1980, she has served in four different criminal intelligence units, performing functions at various levels within the Criminal Intelligence System of the Hong Kong Police Force

She was posted to the Commercial Crime Bureau in 2002 and is now heading one of the tactical intelligence teams, responsible for cultivating and developing intelligence on syndicated fraud and counterfeit cases.

Jeremy Platts
Consultant(AML), Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Hong Kong

Jeremy took up the new position of Consultant (Anti Money Laundering) to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority in February 2006 and works with the Policy and Supervision Divisions to help enhance the effectiveness of the AML supervisory framework and on-site examination programme.

He previously served fourteen years as Detective Chief Inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police, specialising in the field of commercial crime before joining Standard Chartered Bank in 1992 where he worked as the Regional Head, Investigations & Money Laundering Prevention for the Asia Pacific Region. In this role, he travelled widely and oversaw the operation of the Group’s anti-money laundering policies and standards.

In 2003, he established his own consulting business and recent engagements included AML projects in Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

He is a Certified Fraud Examiner, a member of the American Society of Industrial Security and has spoken frequently in Asia and the Middle East.

Joe Petro
Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Citigroup Security and Investigative Services (CSIS)
USA

Joseph Petro is the Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Citigroup Security and Investigative Services. He is responsible for fraud prevention and investigations, physical security and executive protection for Citigroup and its worldwide subsidiary companies. In 1993, Joe joined Travelers Group, Citigroup’s legacy company, as Director of Corporate Security.

From 1971 to 1993, Joe was a special agent and senior executive with the United States Secret Service where he served in numerous operational and management positions. He supervised the Presidential and Vice Presidential protective divisions and the Washington Field Office. Earlier in his career, Joe had been assigned to investigations, intelligence, training, internal affairs and public affairs. He also was selected as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, where he advised and assisted department officials on financial crime enforcement policy and worked with the Justice Department, Congressional committees and other federal agencies on law enforcement issues. Prior to his career in the Secret Service, Joe was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy’s River Patrol Forces.

He is the Co-Chairman of the State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), a member of the Board of Directors of the International Security Management Association (ISMA) and Vice-Chairman and member of the Board of the New York City Law Enforcement Explorers Council.

Joe is a graduate of Temple University and was a Fellow at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is the author of the book “Standing Next to History, An Agents Life Inside the Secret Service.”

John Fogarty
Head, Compliance, UBS AG
Singapore

John Fogarty is the Head of Compliance South Asia for UBS AG Investment Bank. He is an Executive Director currently based in Singapore.

John has worked with UBS AG for the past four and half years in locations spanning Australia, New Zealand, London and Singapore.

John commenced his career in the NSW Police Force spending the majority of his service as a Detective, the last years of which were in the NSW Fraud Enforcement Agency. Entering the corporate sector, John has worked in the then known AMP Society before moving into surveillance and enforcement at both the Sydney Futures Exchange and the Australian Stock Exchange. Prior to joining UBS AG, John worked for US Investment bank Merrill Lynch.

John has extensive knowledge in the financial and capital markets industries. He holds a Bachelor of Policing (Investigations) and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment.

Kiyotaka Sasaki
Director, Enforcement Division, Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC), FSA
Japan

Mr. Sasaki is currently working at SESC, Japan as Director of Enforcement Division responsible for investigations and enforcement actions against market misconducts and manipulations in securities markets. He has a wide range of expertise and experiences on financial sector supervision, including on-site inspection of financial institutions, risk-based approach of supervision, internal- and external-audit functions, as well as anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). He also has a number of experiences in international front of financial sector supervision, in particular, relating to cooperation with foreign supervisions on bilateral and multilateral basis, as well as policy discussions at working groups of the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision, the IOSCO, Financial Stability Forum (FSF)、FATF and G7 Finance Ministers meetings. Before taking up the current position at the SESC, Japan, he worked as senior financial sector expert at IMF dealing with assessments and technical assistance on AML/CFT.

Koid Swee Lian
Director, Financial Intelligence Unit, Bank Negara Malaysia
Malaysia

Madam Koid Swee Lian is the Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit. She has been with the Bank for more than 20 years and has served in various departments, including the Bank Supervision Department, Insurance Regulation Department and Legal Department. Madam Koid was also the Project Manager instrumental in moving the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2001 in Malaysia.

  Larry Lam
Executive Vice President, Head of Group Audit, OCBC Bank
Singapore

Mr. Lam was appointed Executive Vice President and Head of Group Audit of OCBC Bank in January 2006. Mr. Lam was previously Senior Vice President and Head of Internal Audit of another Bank in Singapore, a position he held since January 1998. He brings with him more than 20 years of audit & investigation experience, including senior positions at major organizations like Stanford University, University of California and Coopers & Lybrand - San Francisco Office. Mr. Lam holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration, both from California State Polytechnic University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (California) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor.

Mike Trigg
Group Head, Financial Crime Risk, Standard Chartered Bank
United Kingdom

Mike Trigg is SCB’s Group Head of Financial Crime Risk. The Bank operates in over fifty countries – focusing on Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

As an FSA Approved Person, Mike has oversight of SCB’s global money laundering prevention regime. He is also responsible for the investigation of serious fraud and similar breaches of control.

He has twenty five years experience in this field, working in government and the private sector. He was a founder member of the UK’s National Criminal Intelligence Service, involved in the early development of the Financial Action Task Force and has worked with the Commonwealth Secretariat on several financial crime prevention initiatives. Before joining SCB he was part of the forensic accounting team at Deloitte and Touche.

Mike is a Certified Fraud Examiner and holds a Masters degree in Financial Services Regulation. He is a board member of the International Banks Security Association.

Paul Curby
Managing Director, Insight Risk Group Pte Ltd
Singapore

Paul is the Managing Director of Insight Risk Group, a specialist consultancy firm. He has over 24 years experience in the area of fraud risk and investigation. Before establishing Insight Risk Group Paul had held Director roles specialising in fraud risk and investigation services with a big four accounting firm and a smaller boutique accounting firm.

Paul frequently leads litigation support assignments around Asia. With a wealth of investigative experience behind them, Insight Risk Group has an emphasis on fraud prevention and in that regard Paul has conducted numerous fraud risk management projects for international banks.

He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and an Associate Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Risk Management.

Paul Lawrence
General Manager and Chief Executive Officer, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
Singapore

Mr Lawrence has been with HSBC since 1982 and is currently General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Singapore. He was Chief Executive Officer of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in the Philippines prior to taking over the helm in Singapore in December 2002. Mr Lawrence has also worked in a number of key areas within the group including Credit Management and has worked with the Group in the United Kingdom, the USA, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines. He was appointed a Group General Manager in August 2005.

Mr Lawrence is a director of a number of HSBC companies and The Association of Banks in Singapore. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Combined Studies (Honours) from the University of Leicester, UK.

 

Paul O'Hara
Vice President, Asia AML Compliance, JPMorgan Chase
Hong Kong

Paul is the Managing Director of Insight Risk Group, a specialist consultancy firm. He has over 24 years experience in the area of fraud risk and investigation. Before establishing Insight Risk Group Paul had held Director roles specialising in fraud risk and investigation services with a big four accounting firm and a smaller boutique accounting firm.

Paul frequently leads litigation support assignments around Asia. With a wealth of investigative experience behind them, Insight Risk Group has an emphasis on fraud prevention and in that regard Paul has conducted numerous fraud risk management projects for international banks.

He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and an Associate Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Risk Management.

Peter Richard Hazlewood
Managing Director Compliance Services & Security Group Legal, Compliance, Secretariat and Security
DBS Bank
Singapore

Peter Richard Hazlewood joined DBS Bank in April 2005 as Senior Vice President of Compliance Services. He was promoted to Managing Director of Compliance Services & Security in March 2006.

Hazlewood has group-wide responsibility for all areas of financial crime risk including the anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing programmes, group investigations, customer complaint handling, compliance surveillance , subpoenas, enhanced due diligence, employee screening, compliance policy and management reporting. In April 2006, Hazlewood was also made Head of Corporate Security.

Prior to joining DBS, Hazlewood was based in New York as the Vice-President, International AML Compliance with JP Morgan Chase Bank. A member of the bank's AML Oversight Committee, Hazlewood was responsible for coordinating JPMC's international AML compliance programme as well as heading global AML training and the Special Inquiries Unit. He was based in JPMC's Singapore branch between 1997 and 2003 as the Asia Regional Head of AML and Sanctions Compliance, in addition to heading the Fraud and Regulatory Investigations practice.

Hazlewood is currently the Chairman of the Financial Crime Task Force of the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS).

Hazlewood graduated from the University of Hong Kong and the University of Hull (UK).
Peter Maher
General Manager- Risk Management,
Visa International – Asia Pacific
Singapore

Peter Maher is responsible for Visa payment security services and fraud risk management throughout Asia Pacific. He assumed this position in November 2002.

Peter joined Visa Asia Pacific in October 2001 to lead the chip implementation program, and helped to develop national chip programs in a number of markets across Asia Pacific by working with Visa members and industry partners.

Prior to joining Visa, Peter undertook a number of senior management positions for Standard Chartered Bank between 1992 and 2001 in London, Dubai, Bahrain, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand. His extensive experience spans corporate banking, risk management, corporate debt restructuring, finance, treasury operations and group financial planning.

Philip Robinson
Financial Crime Sector Leader, Director, Regulatory Transactions, Financial Services Authority (FSA)
UK

Philip Robinson is FSA's Director of Regulatory Transactions and Sector Leader for Financial Crime. In the latter role he is responsible for ensuring that issues which pose risks to the FSA's Financial Crime objective are quickly identified and resolved, and that the FSA has the right depth and breadth of financial crime expertise among its people, as well as coherent requirements and policies on financial crime issues. Since 1997, he has had a number of Director roles in the FSA, initially for Communications, then the Pensions Misselling Review and for Banking and Building Society Supervision.

Raja Kumar
Senior Deputy Director, Commercial Affairs Dept/Director, Casino Regulations, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore
Singapore

In late June 2005, Mr T. Raja Kumar was appointed Director of the Casino Regulation Division that was set up in the Ministry of Home Affairs to oversee the preparatory work in the run up to the setting up of the Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore, as well as the operationalisation of the two Integrated Resorts’ casinos.

Concurrently, Mr. Raja is the Senior Deputy Director in the Commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore Police Force. Mr. Raja has had experience in various areas of policing. His other postings include Head (Road Safety & Research, Traffic Police), Deputy Commander (Tanglin Police Division), Commander (Ang Mo Kio Police Division), Deputy Director (Joint Ops in the Ministry of Home Affairs), and Director, Police Intelligence Department.

Mr Raja was awarded the Singapore Police Force Overseas Scholarship in 1996, and went on to complete his Masters of Philosophy (M. Phil.) in Criminology & Law at Cambridge University in 1997, and the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University in May 2006.

Richard A. Lalonde
Head, Financial Operations Unit, Financial Integrity Group, Legal Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
USA

Mr. Lalonde is currently Head of the Financial Operations Integrity unit within the Legal Department of the IMF and has policy and operational oversight responsibilities for the IMF’s anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) program of assessments. He joined the IMF in 2003 on leave from the Canadian Department of Finance. Mr. Lalonde has held a number of positions in the Department of Finance, most recently in the Financial Sector Policy Branch where he was Chief, Financial Crimes responsible for domestic and international AML/CFT policy development and legislation. In this capacity, he was head of Canada’s delegation to the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) and to the G7 working group on financial crime. In 2002-03, Mr. Lalonde was Chairman of the FATF Working Group on the Revision of the FATF Forty Recommendations.

Steve Vickers
President & CEO, International Risk Limited
Hong Kong SAR

As President and Chief Executive Officer of International Risk, Steve is responsible for the strategic direction and operations of the company. During his 31 years in Asia Steve has led numerous sensitive business intelligence projects, political risk assessments, major fraud investigations, crisis containment and risk management assignments. In 2002 Steve led a Management Buy-Out (MBO) from a "Big Four" accounting firm and formed International Risk. Under Steve’s leadership International Risk has conducted a wide variety of business intelligence and investigative assignments in Asia and beyond and is now recognised as the premier international risk mitigation and investigation company.

Tan Sin Liang
Compliance Lawyer, SLTan & Co
Singapore

Mr. Tan is a compliance lawyer specialising in regulatory compliance relating to financial institutions. He drafted the “Guidelines on The Prevention of Money Laundering” for The Association of Banks in Singapore and similar guidelines for the Law Society of Singapore. He was recently appointed an international consultant by the Australian government to assist in strengthening the anti-money laundering measures of a large ASEAN country.

He was the Head of the Legal Department of DBS Bank before he returned to his present law practice.

Mr. Tan is also a professional trainer. He regularly conducts training on anti-money laundering and countering terrorist financing (AML/CFT) in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia for banks (including Board of Director and Senior Management). He is appointed by the Securities Association of Singapore to conduct AML/CFT training for the securities industry in Singapore. So far he has trained about 6,000 bankers and several thousand securities brokers and remisiers.

Mr. Tan is also a regular speaker in regional and international conferences (such as the Cambridge International Symposium on Financial Crime). He is also a regular writer for several journals (including the Journal of Money Laundering Control, Journal of Financial Crime and The Law Gazette, Singapore).

Atty Vicente Aquino
Executive Director, Anti-Money Laundering Council Secretariat (AMLCS) / Assistant Governor, Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Philippines

ATTY. VICENTE S. AQUINO is the Executive Director of the Anti-Money Laundering Council Secretariat (AMLCS) and former Director of the Office of Special Investigation of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. He has a B.S. Journalism degree from the Lyceum of the Philippines where he graduated with honors. He is a Bachelor of Laws graduate of the Manuel L. Quezon University (MLQU) School of Law where he graduated on top of his class and passed the 1979 bar examinations. He ranked second in the Department of Justice’s National Prosecution Service Seminar in 1982. He was a Professorial Lecturer at the MLQU School of Law teaching Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Banking Laws, Law on Natural Resources and Election Laws. Before his stint in the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Anti-Money Laundering Council, he was a public prosecutor in the City Fiscal’s Office of Manila, Trial Fiscal in the Metropolitan and Regional Trial Courts of Manila, a deputized Tanodbayan Prosecutor, Legal Counsel of Security Bank and Vice-President for Legal Affairs of the Finman Group of Companies.

He attended and passed the Financial Investigation and Training Course on Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy in March 2002 in Quantico, Virginia, U.S.A. He has attended and was also a resource speaker in numerous international seminars/trainings/ workshops on money laundering and terrorist financing, among which are the Asia/Pacific Group Money Laundering Methods and Typologies Workshop in Vancouver, Canada; Regional Conference on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in Bali, Indonesia; the Pacific Rim International Conference on Money Laundering and Financial Crime in Bangkok, Thailand; Anti-Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism Workshop in Kuala Lumpur; Anti-Money Laundering Typologies and Trends Workshop in Singapore; Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering Plenary Meeting in Brisbane, Australia and in Macau, China; Egmont Group Plenary Meeting in Sydney, Australia; and the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Seminar in Washington, DC. In March of this year, he headed the Philippine delegation to the Anti-Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing Conference in Berne and Zurich, Switzerland. He also headed the Philippine delegation during the first and second face-to-face meeting with FATF Asia Pacific Review Group in Hong Kong and Seoul, Korea in May and June 2004, respectively. He led the Philippine delegation to the APG Typology Workshop and the third face-to-face meeting with the FATF Asia Pacific Review Group in Brunei from October 4-6, 2004. He attended the Egmont sponsored training seminar on new and emerging financial intelligence units (FIUs) in Bangkok, Thailand last October 25, 2004. He also attended the Seminar on the Promotion of Accession to the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism in Tokyo, Japan from December 1-3, 2004. He attended the International Conference to Combat Terrorism at Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from February 5-8, 2005. He also attended the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice from April 17-21, 2005 and the Train the Trainors Workshop from May 9-13, 2005, both in Bangkok, Thailand.

He attended the FATF Working Group on Typologies Meeting and Face-to-Face Meeting with FATF Asia Pacific Review Group and the FATF APG Plenary Session from June 7-8, 2005 in Singapore. He attended the 13th Annual Egmont Plenary in Washington, D.C. where the Philippines’ membership to the Egmont Group was approved. On July 11-15, 2005, he attended the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) and the Annual Forum on Technical Assistance and Training held in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. He attended the Rule of Law Effectiveness/United States Agency for International Development (ROLE/USAID) funded observation tour in the Untied States from 20-28 August 2005. He last attended the FATF/FATF of South America (GAFISUD) Joint Typologies Meeting and Council for Financial Activities control (OCAF)/Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Workshop on Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Criminal Tax Activities, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 28 November to 1 December 2005.

On January 16-17, 2006, he participated in the APEC Training Workshop on Fighting Corruption and Ensuring Transparency at the New World Renaissance Hotel, Makati City.

On February 13, 2006 he was a resource speaker on the Anti-Money Laundering Conference 2006 held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

From February 15-17, 2006, he participated in the Seminar on Investigating and Prosecuting Terrorism and Other Organized Crime offered by US-DOY/OPDAT held at Manila Diamond Hotel, Manila.

He attended the Conference on Terrorist Finance in The Hague, the Netherlands on March15-16, 2006.

On April 24-26, 2006, he attended the APEC Anti-Corruption Workshop on Prosecuting Corruption held in Shanghai, China. On June 12-16, 2006, he attended the Egmont Group’s Plenary Session held in Limassol, Cyprus. He also attended the 9th Asia-Pacific Group (APG) Annual Meeting held in Manila, Philippines on July 3-7, 2006.

Dr Yunus Hussein
Head, Indonesian Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (INTRAC)
Indonesia

Yunus Husein received his Bachelor in Law from the University of Indonesia, his Master of Law from Washington College of Law The American University – Washington, DC, and Phd of Law from the University of Indonesia.
He has been working for Central Bank of Indonesia since 1982 and in October 2002 was inaugurated to be the Head of Indonesian Financial Transaction and Analysis Centre (Indonesian FIU). He is also a member of National Committee on Governance since 2005. He is a lecturer (as an extraordinary lecturer) on Banking Law at the University of Indonesia, University of Pancasila, and Christian University of Indonesia. He has also became a speaker on Banking Law, Money Laundering, and Know Your Customer in international conference and seminar such as International Conference on Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture, Bangkok, 2001, International Conference of Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (conducted by Indonesian and Australian Government), Bali, 2002, International Conference on Money Laundering (conducted by Department of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia), Bandung, 2003. Besides, He is the head of Indonesian delegation in the face to face meeting with Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering in Tokyo, June 2003.

  Mrs Yvette Cheak

MD & Head, Group Ethnics & Compliance
BNP Paribas




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