Bob has 26 years’ experience as a police officer serving in London and throughout the UK before early retirement and was a detective for most of his service, investigating serious and complex crime including fraud, rape, murder and robbery.
Following retirement from the police and before working in gambling, Bob worked as a private investigator supporting corporate clients in employment and civil matters and during this time conducted internal investigations for clients including the SIA.
He worked for 18 years in the online gambling industry on fraud investigations, as a money laundering reporting officer and AML compliance officer for major operators in the UK and Asia.
Through Bob’s multi-faceted work experience he has gained excellent interpersonal and interviewing skills which provide him with the ability to elicit best evidence and facts, reading when someone may be being evasive or untruthful. He provides discrete and confidential investigations.
Working with online businesses, Bob has gained extensive knowledge in anti-fraud investigation and prevention as well as AML work. He is trained in AML law and regulations, maintaining current with changes and the latest trends in all these fields. Bob conducts gap analysis on AML-CFT policy and processes as well as AML risk assessments, identifying areas of concern and can assist in drafting or updating those policies.
As a consequence of working with the many and diverse IT and manual systems used for the management of data, Bob can review these types of systems with a view to identifying gaps, exploit points in the system’s processes, errors in or manipulations of data management and frauds. His gap analysis reviews of IT and manual systems and processes improve efficiency and reduce risk and meet compliance requirements.