Course Overview:
Criminal enterprises exist to generate profit—but generating illicit money is only the beginning.
Criminals must still move, hide, protect, store, and ultimately use the money they generate.
This isn't a textbook examination of money laundering.
It's a guided walk through how criminal finance actually works, taught by someone with nearly two decades of operational experience infiltrating transnational organized crime networks and posing as a professional money launderer.
The five-day masterclass provides an end-to-end examination of criminal finance and money laundering, from street-level proceeds to businesses, shell companies, trusts, cryptocurrency, professional facilitators, assets, and offshore financial structures.
The goal: build stronger, more complete cases that attack the criminal organization—not just the individual crime.
Key Topics:
- Understanding the Criminal Enterprise — Identify how offenders, money, businesses, assets, facilitators, and leadership connect within the larger organization.
- Following Criminal Proceeds — Trace illicit money from street-level activity through couriers, accounts, businesses, shell companies, trusts, cryptocurrency, assets, and offshore structures.
- Identifying the Real Players — Move beyond visible offenders to identify decision-makers, financiers, facilitators, money movers, professional enablers, and organizational leadership.
- Uncovering Hidden Money & Assets — Recognize how criminals conceal ownership, disguise proceeds, store wealth, exploit legitimate systems, and make illicit money appear legitimate.
- Investigating the Enterprise End to End — Learn how to develop an investigation from the initial criminal activity through the financial network and ultimately toward the larger organization.
- Building Stronger Enterprise Cases — Develop investigations designed to identify and disrupt the people, money, assets, facilitators, and infrastructure that allow criminal organizations to operate.
Course Length:
- 1-day (8 hours) or 5-days (40 hours)
- Classroom environment
Instructor:
Matthew Hedger is a former U.S. intelligence officer with 17 years of service at the CIA and NSA and a subject-matter expert in covert finance, anti-money laundering, and transnational organized crime.Â
While spending more than a decade operating undercover inside transnational criminal networks, Matthew led sensitive operations across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe targeting narcotics, weapons, and money laundering operations.
His operational experience includes Mexican drug trafficking organizations, international money laundering networks, and achieving full-patch membership in a 1%er outlaw motorcycle club while operating undercover.
Today, Matthew advises law enforcement, government agencies, and global financial institutions on money laundering, organized crime, undercover operations, and emerging financial threats.
Who is this for:Â
This masterclass is designed for law enforcement officers, intelligence analysts, financial investigators, compliance teams, private investigators, and prosecutors who want to move beyond academic typologies and understand how money laundering actually works in the field and how to outthink those running it including, but not limited to:
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Law Enforcement Officers (including current or aspiring undercover operators)
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Plain Clothes Officers (engaged in proactive or investigative work)
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Highway Interdiction Units
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Narcotics Units
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Financial Crimes Investigators and Analysts
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Supervisors of Specialized Units, Task Forces, or Investigative Teams
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Private Investigators
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Prosecutors
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Compliance Teams
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