Financial Crime Matters

Defeating a Transnational Laundering Operation, with NCA’s Sal Melki

Financial Crime Matters

Show Notes

In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters with Kieran Beer,” Kieran talks with Sal Melki, Deputy Director for Illicit Finance and Public Private Partnerships at Britain’s National Economic Crime Centre and the National Crime Agency.

Speaking with Kieran at the ACAMS Assembly in Europe this spring, Sal details some of the anti-crime efforts of the NCA, including “Operation Destabilise,” which brought down a more than billion-dollar money laundering operation that converted dirty money for transnational criminals into more fungible cryptocurrency.

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