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Biography - Brendan Hewson.
Financial Crime Conference & Exhibition 2005, Singapore.
Brendan Hewson presentation on Financial Crime.
Brendan Hewson is the Principal of Global Risk Advisory Services (GRA Services). This unique consultancy has been established to assist business organizations with training in the fields of financial crime prevention, including money laundering prevention, common fraud schemes, and other schemes which can threaten businesses. Travel security advice and Personal Safety and Security training also offered.
Mr. Hewson is a well-known and much requested speaker on international financial crime, at business and fraud conferences around the world. Prior speaking engagements have included presentations to the Institute of Chartered Accountants , The Law Society, North Carolina World Trade Association Conference, Asia-Pacific Financial Crime Conference and Exhibition, Institute of International Banking Law and Practice, government agencies in the United States , Southern Africa , and Thailand. He has also given lectures to banking organizations in Singapore, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Russia, the United States, Grand Cayman, Trinidad & Tobago and The British Virgin Islands (BVI).
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Brendan Hewson lecturing at the Advanced Financial Crime Investigation Course.
He is currently a member of The Group of Experts on Commercial Fraud for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNICTRAL). Mr. Hewson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is the author of "Seizure of Confidential Material" published by Butterworths Law Publishers. He is the founder of the International Financial Fraud Convention, an annual event dedicated to bringing together representatives from the financial services industry of established and emerging economies for the purpose of developing ways to prevent international financial fraud.
Prior to establishing Global Risk Advisory Services, Mr. Hewson was, for more than ten years, the Executive responsible for International Corporate Security for one of the largest global financial institutions. He managed staff located in the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. His responsibilities included the prevention and detection of international financial crime for operations in more than 40 countries and over 2oo countries with banking relationships. He was also responsible for managing the bank's international physical security operations together with international travel security.
Prior to this, he was an officer with the Company Fraud Department, New Scotland Yard, London. He served as a police officer for nearly 30 years. He was involved in the investigation of many high-profile cases and his success has been recognized both by the judiciary and other agencies.
Mr. Hewson developed the system under the United Kingdom legislation, (Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, Schedule 1) which is used to obtain confidential material that may be evidence in inquiries, using the judicial process. This material includes, inter alia, bank records and records from accountants and attorneys required as evidence in criminal investigations being conducted in the United Kingdom or other jurisdictions overseas.
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