Expert Trainer on Data Analytics and Cryptocurrency at American Bar Association

The American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) is a non-profit program of the ABA that implements legal reform programs in roughly 50 countries around the world. ABA ROLI’s host country partners include judges, lawyers, bar associations, law schools, court administrators, legislatures, ministries of justice, law enforcement agencies, and a wide array of civil society organizations, including human rights groups.ABA ROLI’s “Case-Based Training on Intel-Led Money Laundering Investigations Across the Balkans and Southeast Asia” Project aims to accelerate the adoption of intelligence-led, network-centered financial investigations (ILFIs) in the Balkans and Southeast Asian countries, to facilitate their ability to successfully detect, disrupt and prosecute money laundering and other financial crime cases at the highest levels and intercept and undermine broader threats posed by transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) and other malign actors. The project objective is to build capacity of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and investigators to conduct financial investigations and analyze financial data by identifying key offenders and facilitators involved in money laundering cases. ABA ROLI plans to provide training in ILFI model to Thailand, Laos, Philippines and Indonesia in Southeast Asia, and to North Macedonia and Montenegro in the Balkans in the period October 2022 to September 2023.

ABA ROLI is seeking an Expert Trainer with expertise in data analytics, cryptocurrency, and digital assets risk management to assist partner countries to better target the identification, investigation and disruption of serious financial crimes and contribute to the implementation of a “Case-Based Training on Intel-Led Money Laundering Investigations Across the Balkans and Southeast Asia” Project.

Responsibilities:

The Expert Trainer will work alongside ABA ROLI’s project teams in Washington DC, SE Asia, and Balkans to undertake the following activities:

1) Develop and deliver training to FIUs and investigators in selected jurisdictions on data analysis using MS Excel, and open-source intelligence to conduct financial investigations related to money laundering associated with digital or virtual assets and cryptocurrencies. The Expert Trainer will design and deliver a training program to address the capacity gaps in data analysis and data analytics tool needs. The training for FIUs could include:

• Defining needs: purpose, aims, scope of data analytics
• Identification of data sources:
• Retrieving data – open-source platforms
• Process and verification of data, harvest and storage of data: different tools and techniques to gather data from the target sources.
• Analyze the data: analyze the data and try to find connections between it to formulate a complete picture about the target.
• Deliver the results: present a report of findings that could be used for effective law enforcement action, potentially covering:
• Illicit wealth and assets
• Illegal operations
• Ownership or effective control of virtual assets
• Criminal networks and associates
• Potential lines of investigation on illicit funds and money laundering

2) Develop and deliver training to FIUs, AML/CFT regulators and investigators on:

• concepts of blockchain, most popular cryptocurrency, tracing transactions, blockchain explorer
• crypto assets and privacy
• dark web technology and tools

Additional information:

ABA ROLI will support travel related expenses under Tasks 2, 3 and 4 including transportation, flights, lodging, per diem, medical evacuation coverage, and other allowable business expenses.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in data analytics, crypto currency, blockchain and dark web technology and tools
• Knowledge of international AML standards and financial investigations practices is preferred
• Experience with capacity building of government regulators and officials is preferred
• Ability to travel to the Balkans, and/or SE Asia.