Please join the Wellington ACFE for our first meeting to the year.
Please see note at bottom off the page about up-coming Fraud Film Festival being held in Wellington.
TOPIC: Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Confiscation
FATF Recommendations are the basis which countries meet shared objectives of tackling money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of proliferation. They include robust measures to target and confiscate criminal assets.
The risk of financial gains being restrained from criminal offending, deters the likely benefits and removes the ability of criminal minded enterprises to grow.
The NZ Police Asset Recovery Unit is at the forefront of the restraining assets to help ensure crime does not pay.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Detective Inspector Christiaan Barnard is a Manager with the NZ Police Asset Recovery Unit and has spent over seven years working in the Financial Crime Group in roles including the Head of FIU and Acting Director. He has represented the NZ Police at the Egmont Group of FIU’s Plenary; as an expert at the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) Joint Experts Meeting on Asset Recovery; and as an expert as part of the INTERPOL Silver Notice Project. He is a career Police Officer with 25 years’ service and he has worked in a range of investigations roles including homicide and serious crime, child protection, and organised crime. He currently leads teams of investigators in Wellington, Palmerston North, and Hastings who are responsible for restraining and forfeiting criminally derived assets.
Christiaan remains actively involved in operational policing through his part-time positions as the Commander of the Wellington District Police Negotiation Team and as a commander in the NZ Police Disaster Victim Identification team. He spent four months in 2023 seconded to the MFAT Papua Hostage Taskforce and deployed to Christchurch as part of the DVI Team in the 2019 Terrorist Attacks in Christchurch.
He holds a BA (Hons – Criminology) from Victoria University and was a criminology tutor at Victoria University for 10 years.
Please note for Wellington members:
Fraud Film Festival 2025
Roxy Cinema, Wellington - 17th & 18th March
ACFE NZ is again proud sponsor of the New Zealand International Film Festival. This year it is happening in Wellington at Roxy Cinema.
To reserve your tickets go to the Roxy Cinema website.
https://www.roxycinema.co.nz/movie/fraud-film-festival-2025
Select the date and start time (9am) to book tickets.
Early-bird pricing finishes on the 31st January.
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