Programme 2024

Day 1, TUESDAY, 24th September

Lessons from the Recent Past and New Directions in the Fight Against Financial Crime

* Please note that the programme is in local time (EEST)

9.00

Registration and welcome coffee

9.30

Speech by the Rector and/or the Minister of Interior

10.00

15 Years Since the Death of Sergei Magnitsky: Hermitage’s 15-Year Journey in Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Leading to 17 Money Laundering Cases Worldwide. Lessons Learned on Methods, Techniques, and Structures Used by Money Launderers and Their Application in Combating High-Level Financial Crime

Vadim Kleiner, Sergei Magnitsky Justice Campaign/ Hermitage Capital Management (UK)

SUMMARY

11.00

High-Level Financial Crime and State Capture

Liz David-Barrett, Professor of Governance and Integrity and Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex (UK)

SUMMARY

12.00

Enablers of Financial Crime – What Do We Need to Know and Do?

Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University (UK)

SUMMARY

13.00

Lunch break

13.45

Which Legal Changes Are Expected and Needed in Estonia to Effectively Fight Financial Crime and Confiscate Criminal Proceeds?

Laidi Surva, Vice Chancellor for Criminal Policy, Estonian Ministry of Justice (ET) 

SUMMARY 

14.30

What Does It Take to Build Up Analytics for Financial Intelligence Unit and Which Benefits It Provides

Ivar Laur, Head of data management team, Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit (ET)

SUMMARY

15.15

Coffee break

15.30

The FTX case

Thomas Kovacs, FBI (US)

SUMMARY

17.00

Summary of the day and departure of guests from the academy

 

 

DAY 2, WEDNESDAY, 25th September

Practical Solutions for Combating Financial Crime

* Please note that the programme is in local time (EEST)

9.00

Registration and welcome coffee
Launch event of the 23rd issue of Security Spectrum: Journal of Advanced Security Research 

9.30

How Can the Third Sector Help to Fight Financial Crime? Overview of New Initiatives and Ideas

Krista Asmusa, Transparency International Latvia (LV)

SUMMARY

10.30

How Could an International Anti-Corruption Court Effectively Fill Gaps in the International Framework for Combating Corruption?

Susan Lamb, International (Criminal) Lawyer and Former Judge (NZ/PT)

SUMMARY

11.30

Enabling a Collaborative Approach to Tackling Financial Crime

Ester Eggert, Head of Product, Salv (ET)

SUMMARY

12.30

Lunch break

13.30

Seizing Digital Assets 101 

Aidan Larkin, Asset Reality (UK)

SUMMARY

14.30

Exploring Blockchains for Intelligence Purposes

Scott Johnston, Martin Schwarz, Chainalysis

SUMMARY

15.30

Summary and conclusion of the conference

 

The organisers reserve the right to make any necessary changes to the programme

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