Investment Advisory and Management Services

• Allow criminals to engage advisors—potentially under-regulated or complicit—to structure portfolios that integrate illicit proceeds with ordinary investments.
• Guidance on complex deals and cross-entity transactions helps conceal underlying beneficiaries and capital origins.

• Criminals retain professional advisors to establish sophisticated, multi-jurisdictional investment portfolios, complicating beneficial ownership checks. • Repeated asset reallocations and cross-border transfers can serve as layering measures to disguise the initial source of funds.

• Offer professional portfolio management, potentially masking the origin of illicit funds by integrating them with ordinary client portfolios.
• Enable cross-border transfers and repeated layering through multiple asset classes, complicating AML investigations and obscuring ultimate beneficiaries.

• Criminals deposit large lump-sum amounts that exceed typical investment strategies, disguising the illicit origins of funds.
• They use external asset managers to open segregated sub-accounts across multiple jurisdictions, multiplying transactions and obscuring the paper trail.
• Rapid reinvestment or transfer among affiliated entities adds layers of complexity, frustrating attempts to detect beneficial ownership or trace the source of funds.

• Criminals pose as reputable investment managers, marketing above-market performance and guaranteed returns.
• In reality, they divert client funds to sustain a Ponzi-style system or for personal gain, deceiving new investors with falsified performance reports.

• Perpetrators pose as reputable advisors, luring investors with promises of high-yield portfolios.
• Ongoing ‘dividends’ or ‘returns’ are funded by incoming investments, integrating tainted proceeds with legitimate capital under management.