The panel of high-level speakers includes renowned lawyers and fraud investigators working together to provide companies with the best tools for dealing with fraud in all business sectors where it is found – banking, retail, investment funds, insurance and pharmaceuticals.
- Bradley C. Birkenfeld, UBS Whistleblower and author of Lucifer’s Banker
- Alexandru Ene, Partner, Head of Litigation & Compliance, Noerr
- Oana Piticas, Senior Associate, White Collar Crime Practice Coordinator, Noerr
- Iulian Sorescu, Partner, Head of Financial, Tax & State Aid Department, Noerr
- Andrei Copil, Management Consultant, Noerr
- Gabriel Zgunea, CEO, Corporate Intelligence Agency
- Dan Rusu, Senior Partner, Corporate Intelligence Agency
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OPENING AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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Introduction
(Brief introductory aspects regarding the current socio-political context and its effect on current fraud tendencies, with a special focus on decisive factors such as fraudsters’ motivation and opportunity, the decrease in the efficiency of fraud prevention mechanisms, etc.)
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Fraud in various sectors. General overview and case studies.
Common fraud schemes by sector:
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The conflict of interests – a common culprit
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Fraud prevention mechanisms
(or why fraud can happen in your organisation, why ethics and compliance training is not enough, why financial employees are not usually qualified to detect fraud and why fraud should not be a common business cost)
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Fraud deterrence mechanisms
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Closing remarks and Q&A session
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Bradley C. Birkenfeld is a retired investment professional and the most significant financial whistleblower in history. He is the author of Lucifer’s Banker UNCENSORED: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy. As an international private banker he exposed how UBS, the world’s largest bank, helped ultra-wealthy Americans commit billions in tax fraud.
Alexandru Ene has extensive experience in process management and strategic mandate execution, especially in civil law, commercial law, labor law and real estate law disputes, as well as in insolvency procedures and white collar crime. He coordinates also the compliance practice, having experience in implementing and developing compliance programs, planning and structuring internal investigations, as well as providing prevention programs and trainings
Oana Piticaş has extensive experience in criminal law, business crimes, criminal liability and criminal defence strategy, especially with foreign and local companies, but also in real estate and contract law. She specializes in legal assistance and representation of local or foreign companies in all stages of a criminal investigation, internal and fraud investigations, compliance and dawn raid.
Iulian Sorescu is member of ACCA UK, CECCAR, CAFR and AMCOR and heads our Financial, State Aid & Management Consulting Department. He coordinates the strategic advice offered to our clients in all business and financial issues such as financial advisory, financial due diligence, financial audit according to IFRS, US/German GAAP and Romanian standards, financial reporting and controlling, bookkeeping, payroll and management consulting. In particular, he helps our clients improve/maintain their financial performance by coaching and monitoring their internal activities and optimizing their structures. In 2008 Iulian has developed our State Aid Department. Since then our team has successfully assisted many international companies in view of obtaining the financing approval for state aid, by preparing the business plan, business model as well as by providing assistance in relation to the Ministry of Public Finances. The projects represented either extension of production/business of international companies, or Greenfield investments. Starting 2019 Iulian Sorescu is member of the Executive Committee of Amcor, using his expertise to help the association accomplish its mission effectively.
Andrei Copil is responsible for Noerr’s Management Consulting practice. With extensive experience in serving some of the largest CEE companies in their transformation efforts, Andrei has a solid experience in key areas, such as strategy, process redesign, cost optimization, performance management, restructuring of operations and sales.
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