Course Overview:

Drug trafficking organizations are not just criminal groups moving narcotics. They are profit-driven enterprises built around supply, demand, logistics, risk management, enforcement, corruption, financial movement, and reinvestment.

This course examines narcotics organizations through that lens.

Instead of looking only at drugs, seizures, couriers, and street-level activity, you’ll learn how these organizations generate revenue, move money, conceal profits, finance operations, and protect the financial infrastructure that keeps the enterprise alive.

The course focuses on how financial intelligence can help investigators identify organizational structure, locate key facilitators, expose professional enablers, understand future criminal activity, and develop enterprise-level investigations that go beyond individual arrests.

You’ll learn how to follow the money not just to prove a case, but to understand the business model behind the organization.

Instructor:

Matthew Hedger is a subject matter expert in anti-money laundering, insider threat mitigation, and organized crime, with specialized expertise in the money laundering techniques of Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations. A former U.S. intelligence officer with 17 years of service at the CIA and NSA, Matthew led sensitive operations across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

He operated for over 10 years undercover inside transnational organized crime networks, including infiltrating a 1%er outlaw motorcycle club and becoming a fully patched member, and cumulatively moved over $100 million throughout his career while posing as a money launderer across multiple transnational organized criminal groups, including a Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization, directly enabling the dismantling of narcotics, weapons, and money laundering operations.

Today, Matthew serves as a trusted keynote speaker and advisor to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and financial institutions on emerging threats, financial crime, and organizational risk.