De Quincey Bailey

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Position

Senior Investigation Officer and an Illicit Finance Lead

De Quincey (“DQ”) is a forensic subject matter expert in aspects of national and international money laundering systems, with particular expertise in ‘underground banking’ and the criminal abuse of alternative payment systems, including informal value transfer systems (IVTS) such as Hawala and similar service providers, FinTech: Alternative Banking Platforms (ABPs1 ), embedded finance, banking-as-a-service and ‘nested services’ arrangements which may include Cryptoasset businesses. He has been an accredited member of the UKs National Crime Agency (NCA) Expert Laundering Evidence Cadre, (which is now part of the National Economic Crime Centre - NECC), and a member of the Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association (POCLA) since 2016. He is a member of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Expert Group on Professional Money Laundering Networks and the use of Virtual Assets for Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorism Financing (TF). He has spent more than fifteen years investigating and prosecuting international money laundering networks exploiting the financial sector internationally to provide their services to organised crime groups, (OCGs). These investigations have given him continued exposure to a wide range of serious and organised crime (SOC), and the techniques used by OCGs to raise, store, use and move criminal proceeds in its numerous forms, nationally and internationally.