A four-level training programme for government officials, investigative journalists and academics — dismantling the corporate, financial and legal structures used for money laundering, illicit financial flows and aggressive tax evasion.
Course lecturer: Dr. Collen Lediga, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Certification Levels 01 — 04
The architecture of illicit finance.
Shell companies, offshore, and the corporate veil.
Trade-based laundering, real estate, and the return to legitimacy.
Forensic accounting, prosecution, and systemic reform.
Selected modules from the programme faculty
Piercing corporate veils and identifying UBOs in complex trust and shell structures across offshore jurisdictions.
Reconstructing distorted statements to reveal hidden asset transfers, kick-backs and falsified revenue.
Detecting over- and under-invoicing using price-filter analysis and bilateral trade-gap methodology.
Every module combines study notes, worked exercises, a real-world case study, a quiz and essay-length assignments graded by faculty. All materials are also available as downloadable PDF handouts.
PDFProgramme handout packIdentify the primary discrepancy between declared VAT and export manifest data in a trade-based laundering scenario. Note how over-invoicing of textile goods correlates with the transfer of funds into a Panamanian holding company through a freight-forwarder escrow.
"Draft a three-page investigative brief tracing the probable flow of illicit funds through the BVI–Singapore corridor based on the provided wire records."
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