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The Fight Against Financial Crime
15/10/2009
Organiser : Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA - Ireland)
Conference
 
Justice Conference on the Fight Against Serious Forms of Organised Crime, Corruption and Financial Crime in the EU and at the International Level.

The conference will start at 12.00pm and conclude at 14:30pm.

Keith McCarthy, Head of the Anti-Corruption, Proceeds of Crime and Specialist Cases Unit in the Serious Fraud Office (UK), will speak at the IIEA on the fight against corruption in the EU and at an international level from a UK perspective;

Rob Wainwright, newly appointed Director of Europol, will speak on Europol's role in the fight against organised crime, fraud and money laundering in the EU; and

Det. Chief Superintendent Pat Byrne, newly appointed Chief Bureau Officer of the Criminal Assets Bureau, Ireland, will discuss the Irish perspective on the future for European law enforcement agencies in the fight against financial and organised crime.

The Institute will be delighted to hear these speakers' comments on the fight against financial crime as they are of particular benefit to our continuing research on Justice and Home Affairs Policy.

About the speakers:

Keith McCarthy is Head of Operations with responsibility for anti-corruption, proceeds of crime and specialist cases within the Serious Fraud Office, UK. Prior to joining the SFO, he was Deputy Director in HMRC Criminal Investigation Directorate and Head of profession for financial investigations including asset recovery. He is a corruption evaluator for the Council of Europe, GRECO. He is the Chair of the Tax Crime and Money Laundering Working Group at the OECD and he also represents the SFO at the Working Group on Bribery and Corruption at the OECD.




Rob Wainwright was appointed Director of Europol in April 2009. Between 2000 and 2003, he was Head of the UK Liaison Bureau at Europol and he also managed the Europol National Unit in London. The Liaison Bureaux are a key link in Europol's cooperation with the EU Member States. In 2003, he was promoted to the position of Director International of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) where he was responsible for its international operations and for developing and implementing the UK strategy against facilitated illegal immigration. From 2006 onwards, he was Chief of the International Department of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and he oversaw 20,000 law enforcement cases each year as well as establishing the international strategy and operational capabilities of the newly formed agency.

Det. Chief Superintendent Pat Byrne is the newly appointed Chief Bureau Officer of the Criminal Assets Bureau, Ireland. CAB's statutory remit is to carry out investigations into the suspected proceeds of criminal conduct. It identifies assets of persons, which derive or are suspected to derive directly or indirectly from criminal conduct. It adopts a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary partnership approach in its investigations and it works closely with international crime investigation agencies. It also works with international bodies such as the European Commission and CARIN, an informal network of law enforcement agencies.

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