Policy adviser / supervisor / researcher
For readers whose output is a reform, an inspection framework or a thesis rather than a case. Runs the architecture and effectiveness material first, then samples the operational modules deeply enough to keep policy honest about what practitioners can do.
Establishes the working vocabulary; money laundering, IFF, aggressive tax planning, tax evasion, corruption proceeds, and situates each within the global financial system.
Definitional discipline: most bad IFF statistics start with a category error.
Maps the institutional scaffolding of global AML/CFT, FATF's standard-setting role, the FSRB network, the mutual evaluation cycle and the ICRG listing process — using South Africa's 2023 greylisting and 2025 delisting as the organising case.
FATF, FSRBs and the mutual evaluation machinery you will be assessed by.
Designing the analytics function of a revenue authority or FIU, risk-scoring and its failure modes, data protection limits after the CJEU BO-register rulings, measuring effectiveness against FATF's 11 Immediate Outcomes, greylisting dynamics, corruption of the enforcement function itself, and whistleblower protection.
Programme design, metrics and institutional integrity — the policy core.
How multinational groups move profit out of the jurisdiction where value is created, intra-group services, IP migration, thin capitalisation, commodity mispricing — and how a revenue authority builds and defends a transfer-pricing adjustment.
Profit shifting: the largest measurable component of IFF for most developing states.
Examines how bid rigging, kickback structures and shell subcontractors convert public procurement into a laundering vector, and how the Zondo Commission record shows integration proceeding through professional intermediaries at state-owned enterprises. Equips investigators to trace captured procurement networks from tender document to beneficial owner.
State capture as a governance failure, not merely a criminal one.
How anonymous corporate structures are built, why they are so effective, and how to pierce them.
Beneficial-ownership reform is unintelligible without the structures it targets.
The full recovery pipeline from tracing to restraint to confiscation and return — non-conviction-based confiscation, UNCAC Chapter V, the StAR Initiative, the EU's 2024 asset-recovery Directive, Swiss and UK restitution practice, GFAR return principles, and the politics that stall repatriation.
Asset return: the diplomatic and legal frame around repatriation.
How intelligence, information and evidence actually move between states; MLAT practice, Egmont FIU exchange, exchange of information on request versus CRS/CARF automatic exchange, joint audits, and how to draft a request that gets answered.
Cooperation instruments and why they underperform in practice.
Reading a set of financial statements adversarially: revenue recognition abuse, related-party opacity, off-balance-sheet structures, impairment games, and the diagnostic ratios that flag manipulation before an auditor or regulator does.
Audit-quality and reporting reform, seen through two collapses.