Financial Investigation Seminar
FREE TRAINING
Drury Plaza Hotel Broadview
400 W Douglas Ave
Wichita, KS
May 14-16, 2024
The Department of Justice’s Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Recovery Section (MLARS) is hosting free training regarding financial investigations the week of May 14-16, 2024.
This is a basic seminar. The objective of this seminar is to apply investigative techniques and methods to unravel the case study’s money laundering scheme, to identify assets for forfeiture, and to make charging and forfeiture decisions. Using videos to illustrate the case study involving a drug enterprise, this practical, innovative, and interactive seminar is designed to introduce participants to financial investigations, money laundering, and asset forfeiture. During the seminar, participants will analyze financial documents to establish links among the targets, assets, and the illegal activities.
Participants will be assigned to a “task force” group and will be required to discuss the case study as a team. Each task force member will take a turn reporting the group’s investigative results to the entire group. Because this is an interactive seminar, participants must be present for the entire time each day. Absence of a task force member adversely affects team work.
Seminar Modules:
- Introduction to Financial Investigation
- Starting a Financial Investigation
- Bank Secrecy Act Reporting Requirements
- Organizing a Financial Investigation
- Obtaining and Analyzing Bank Documents
- Money Laundering Statutes
- Identifying Assets for Forfeiture
- Evaluating and Seizing Assets
- Proving Unexplained Income
- Analyzing Tax Records
- Creating a Money Flow Chart
- Seizing and Freezing Foreign-Based Assets
- Anticipating Challenges to Forfeiture
- Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Charging Decisions
Seminar Objectives:
- Conduct a financial investigation
- Identify assets for seizure and forfeiture
- Identify money laundering offenses
The course starts Tuesday morning and finishes Thursday afternoon. The only cost to participants is travel, lodging and per diem.
The Financial Investigations Seminar is three FULL days.
Registration will begin at 8:30am on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, and class will start promptly at 9:00 a.m. each day. Class is scheduled to end at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 16, 2024.
Participants must be nominated to attend and must be present for the entire three days. Registration is open only to participants with less than five years of experience in financial investigations, asset forfeiture, and money laundering.
NOMINATION FORMS MUST BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2024.
Debra L. Barnett | Assistant United States Attorney |United States Attorney's Office | District of Kansas | 301 N. Main, Suite 1200, Wichita, KS 67202 | (316) 269-6481 | debra.barnett@usdoj.gov
