Prosecutor / asset-recovery counsel
Sequenced by the shape of a prosecution: elements of the offence, then proof of the flow, then cooperation, then confiscation and return. Technical layering modules are included at the depth needed to cross-examine, not to operate.
Establishes the working vocabulary; money laundering, IFF, aggressive tax planning, tax evasion, corruption proceeds, and situates each within the global financial system.
Autonomous-offence doctrine and the elements you must plead.
Traces the legal architecture connecting an underlying crime to the money that flows from it, from the FATF designated categories and self-laundering through serious tax crime, tracing doctrine and civil forfeiture, to the evidential chain a prosecutor must build.
Predicate offences, tax crime and the proceeds chain in law.
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.
The standards backdrop your court and your legislature are responding to.
How anonymous corporate structures are built, why they are so effective, and how to pierce them.
Corporate veil and nominee arrangements — the evidential heart of most cases.
Examines the gatekeeper professions that design and operate layering schemes, trust and company service providers, nominee networks, and law-firm client accounts; the legal-privilege boundary carved out by the CJEU, and how layering is actually project-managed as a service.
Professional enablers: privilege arguments and how they are properly confined.
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.
Procurement corruption and state capture: the dominant fact pattern in practice.
Turning transactional evidence into court-usable proof of an offence.
Forensic accounting evidence, and what makes a schedule survive challenge.
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.
Cross-border evidence gathering, admissibility, and the eighteen-month gap problem.
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.
Confiscation, repatriation and the politics of return.
How a financial investigation is turned into a courtroom-ready case file; custody, indexing and disclosure, and how the forensic accountant reports, is qualified, and survives cross-examination without losing the probative force of the tracing.
Constructing the case file and preparing your expert.