EXPERT SPOTLIGHT
Simon Dilloway:
Follow the money trail
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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
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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
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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.