ACAMS Today Magazine (March-May 2011) Vol. 10 No. 2 | Page 10

EXPERT SPOTLIGHT Simon Dilloway: Follow the money trail A CAMS Today had the opportunity to speak with Simon Dilloway, founder of Lopham Consultancy. Dilloway spent over 30 years in the Metropolitan Police in London. He specialized in the investigation of corruption, financial crime and terrorist financing by the use of financial investigation methods and collection and analysis of financial intelligence. Whilst leading a team in the Special Branch National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit (NTFIU) at New Scotland Yard he used these techniques to great effect in the aftermath of the London bomb 10 attacks of 2005. He subsequently led the financial investigation and intelligence gathering operation that led to the arrest and conviction of the terrorists involved in the conspiracy to bring down seven airliners en route to North America. Since retiring from the police and founding Lopham Consultancy, he has assisted the European Commission, Council of Europe and United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime in capacity building missions around the globe. His training on AML and in particular CTF has been well received by law enforcement personnel from Russia, the Balkans, the ACAMS TODAY | MARCH–MAY 2011 | ACAMS.ORG Middle East (including Iraq) and North Africa, as well as the UK, where he is an associate financial crime trainer with the NPIA. He has spoken at many international conferences, and recently presented on terrorist finance to the NATO Task Force Committee in Brussels. He is currently engaged in re-writing the national anti-money investigation and prosecution handbooks for the Republic of Vietnam. He has a BSc(Hons) in Police Studies, and an MSc in Criminal Justice. He is a member of ACAMS, the Institute of Directors, and a Director & Fellow of the UK Security Institute.