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Dr. Andrea Galli, a former theoretical physicist at Max Planck Institutes and ETH, currently a partner at swiss east affairs gmbh, a boutique white-collar investigations practice in Zürich, specializes in international economic crimes investigation and intelligence, mainly in risk management, asset tracing, compliance, due diligence, complex investigations, anti-money laundering (AML/CFT/KYC/KYT), financial crime investigations, sanctions and counter-terrorism, computer forensics, e-Discovery, and economic intelligence and counter-intelligence.
He has extensive government and regulator connections in Switzerland and contacts in the intelligence sector in Eastern Europe, the CIS countries, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. He is a certified member of the Council of International Investigators.
Dr. Galli has been distinguished in many international articles on the exposure of major cases of notable heritage disputes, fraud, corruption, money laundering, and information manipulation. His investigation and consulting activities have encompassed multiple clients including several UHNWIs and their lawyers, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, BNP-Paribas, Swiss Army, Armasuisse, RUAG, Fedpol, Renova, Kinross Gold Corporation, Roche Diagnostics, ENI, Mondi Group, Novartis International, several specialized law offices, and some government agencies.
An AML expert
and pioneer, he was an architect of the AML KYC solution deployed at Credit
Suisse. He has also served as a lecturer in economic crime investigation at the
University of Lucerne and he still lectures “modern doctrine of (anti) money
laundering” at the Centro di Studi Bancari Villa Negroni in Lugano. He has
cooperated with major investigative groups dealing with cases such as Wirecard
and others covered by the ICIJ and the OCCRP. He is a member of Ethics and
Compliance, Switzerland, author in Modern Diplomacy, and president of the New
Strategic Concept think tank.
To understand how to combat money laundering, one has to know how the money laundering industry works today.
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