Strategic Advisory Board
We are masters at bringing together the right experts from the right places. The SAB is a select group of these experts, helping shape the future of the IFG, and to keep us at the forefront of global asset recovery
Chairman Of The SAB
Abdula Maliki
Managing Director, TIT Group
Singapore
Maliki is an experienced strategic advisor to businesses, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals in Southeast Asia.
Prior to his appointment as Managing Director for the T|T Group, Maliki was a Partner in a leading law firm in Singapore. Maliki’s achievements include being the first non-lawyer in Singapore to be awarded equity partnership in a law firm.
Maliki previously held senior positions in the energy and trade sectors for the Singapore and New Zealand governments.
Maliki also serves on the Strategic Advisory Board of the Intercontinental Forensic Group (IFG), a global network of highly skilled international lawyers who specialise in tracing, freezing, seizing and recovering stolen assets.
Maliki holds a degree in management and a post graduate diploma in international marketing.
SAB Members
Brian Sheppard
Ret. Asst. Commissioner City of London Police UK
United Kingdom
Brian served 32 years as a police officer completing his career in 2016 as the Assistant Commissioner of the City of London Police. As the UK policing lead for fraud & Cybercrime, he led the forces of five hundred strong specialist Economic Crime Directorate, working alongside the UK National Crime Agency and Government’s Security Services, to investigate the most serious national fraud and cyber-crime affecting the UK. He has provided evidence to Parliamentary Select Committees and is a regular speaker at industry forums focussing on addressing fraud, cybercrime, and money laundering.He is an assistant Director for a London-based Cyber Security firm and a member of the strategic advisory board for ‘ Black Cube ’, a global company specializing in complex asset tracing and corporate investigations.
Helen Hatton
Chairman and Head of the Jersey Office
Central Associates
England
Helen is a widely recognised figure in both the City of London and the offshore financial services world. She has extensive senior regulatory experience in both onshore and offshore financial services environments and played a key role in numerous financial crime investigations. She has been appointed financial sector expert in three FATF jurisdictional evaluations (Aruba, Ghana, Austria) and acted as moderator of four more, undertaking a number of complex, international investigatory and other mandates for the IMF, World Bank, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Commonwealth Secretariat.Helen now runs her Jersey-based private office, from which she manages her personal affairs in addition to a small collection of non-executive appointments. These include chairing the Risk Committee for Santander Financial Services Limited, the bank’s high net worth offering based in London with branches in the Isle of Man and Jersey; and acting as Chairman of Central Associates Limited, a leading London-based investigation, intelligence, and surveillance firm. She also is a director of Registry Trust Limited, the UK Ministry of Justice-sponsored depository of all debt judgments arising in the British Isles, from which individuals’ credit ratings are generated.
Chris A. Milton
IFG, Director of Investigations, Risk, Intelligence and Behavioural Science MENA and APAC / Asia Pacific
Chris initially spent 13 years as an accredited specialist detective in the British Transport Police, leading a covert team deployed to tackle serious and organised crime across the UK. In 2014 he co-founded Forensics evaluation, and now splits his time between Hong Kong and Cape Town. He heads the Asia and Africa division which oversees investigations, intelligence gathering, and training across the whole region including the Middle East.With his team spread across APAC, Europe and Southern Africa they develop covert and conventional investigation tactics to fight fraud, financial crime, and get beneath the surface of complex multi-jurisdictional cases. Alongside this he leads the development of a research and intelligence team to support Non- Government Organisations in Africa and Asia for Human Trafficking, Child Sexual Exploitation and People Smuggling. He delivers training in this niche arena focused on OSINT, covert intelligence techniques, data scrapping and intelligence aggregation to assist in the detection and disruption of transnational crime.He regularly undertakes training delivery and speaking engagements in the areas of behavioural detection, interviewing techniques exploring the behavioural science of interviewees, and insider threats. His investigation and intelligence clients includes global Law firms, public listed companies, SME’s and high net worth clients across EMEA and APAC. His training and advisory clientele include the Indonesian, Malaysian, and South African governments and police, MOI of Qatar, Brunei Prime Minister’s Office and various NGO’s.
Jonathan Winer
Law Offices of Jonathan M Winer
Jonathan Winer has been a journalist, litigator, Senate counsel, investigator, diplomat, regulatory lawyer, international consultant, expert witness, and authority on legal issues involving the transit of information, goods, services, and people across national borders. He provides strategic counsel and solutions for domestic and international clients faced with complex cross-border compliance and enforcement issues affected by the political, policy and legal decisions that are made in Washington, D.C.
His clients have included governments, multilateral organizations, financial institutions, companies facing crises and people seeking practical strategic counsel on law and policy. His work has taken him from the United States to Canada, Latin America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, North Africa and East Asia
Kevin Lee
Barrister
Prince’s Chambers
Hong Kong
Kevin Lee’s practice covers all aspects of commercial litigation and international arbitration. He has particular experience in advising on and acting in, disputes involving banking and financial services, company law, competition law, public law, shipping and international trade, insurance and reinsurance, securities regulation, and conflicts of law. In 2022, he was listed as a leading commercial disputes barrister (Legal 500).Kevin’s scope of practice extends to fields including all forms of contractual dispute, commercial injunction, judicial review, telecommunication, intellectual property, and professional disciplinary proceedings. He is also frequently instructed in matters involving, among others, employment, chancery, building, and construction (including proceedings before the Appeal Tribunal (Buildings)) and has experience handling matters pertaining to civil fraud, global asset tracing and recovery, defamation, personal injury and professional negligence. As a Korean-born barrister, Kevin has a unique breadth of expertise and experience in Korean matters, and regularly acts in disputes involving Korean clients, particularly those with an international dimension and where both commercial and criminal elements are present.
Lluís Carreras
Partner
Bufete Carreras Llansana
Spain
Lluís has been a lawyer since 1984 and is a member of the “Colegio de la Abogacía de Barcelona”. He has been a sole practitioner since 2017. His firm, “Bufete Carreras Llansana”, was founded by his father and specialises in civil, commercial and criminal litigation. He has been a member of the Intercontinental Forensic Group since 1997. He is a Member of the European Lawyers Associations, and a founding member of the British Spanish Law Association.
Lluís regularly appears as an expert witness on Spanish law before the UK Courts. He is also a Professor at the ESADE Law School (Universitat Ramon Llull – Barcelona) and trustee of the Board of Fundación Bancaria La Caixa and the Board of Fundació Codespa. He is President of the Spanish Red Cross in Sant Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona) and Vice-President of the same organisation in the province of Barcelona.
