Yehuda
Shaffer
Yehuda Shaffer is an independent consultant specializing in risk and wealth management both in the private and governmental sector with specific expertise in AML CFT, FATF standards and evaluations, and in the investigation and prosecution of financial crime, money laundering, terror financing and confiscation of assets. Mr shaffer served as the Israeli Deputy State Attorney (Financial Enforcement) overseing all investigations and prosecutions of proceed generating crime including money laundering and confiscation. Before that, he was the director and founder of IMPA - (Israel Money-laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority) the Israeli FIU (Financial Intelligence Unit) in the Ministry of Justice.
Mr. Shaffer has represented the state of Israel, the Israeli prosecution service, and the Israeli FIU in various international fora, (CAT Geneva, International Prosecutors Association (APA), The Egmont group, OECD, Council of Europe (Moneyval) and FATF). He has been an expert evaluator in several Anti Money Laundering and Countering Terror Financing (AML/CFT) evaluations on behalf of the Council of Europe (Moneyval) and the IMF. (Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Poland, Jersey, Isle of man, Georgia), and as a regular reviewer and trainer of evaluators in Moneyval\FATF evaluator courses. Also, he serves regularly as an expert as part of technical assistance programs for FIU, Police, Prosecutors and Judges, as well as with regarding to drafting of legislation, National Rik Assessments (NRA), both independently and on behalf of the CoE UNODC World Bank OSCE EU and others.