Walter
Perkel, CAMS
Walter Perkel is a Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) in El Salvador with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training (DOJ-OPDAT), focused on handling corruption, money laundering, and asset forfeiture. OPDAT is an implementing partner for the Bureau of International, Narcotics, and Law Enforcement (”INL”). RLA Perkel has been in El Salvador since January 2020, and has focused on providing technical assistance in case mentoring with respect corruption and money laundering investigations. Previously, RLA Perkel was at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia form January 2015 to January 2020 on detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona. While with OPDAT, through a proactive investigation curricula Mr. Perkel designed and delivered throughout Serbia, he had helped shift many prosecution offices in the different appellate regions of Serbia from a reactive to proactive approach to investigations. He was also instrumental in the drafting of the new law that created specialized anti-corruption units for Serbia, which became active March 1, 2018 and have already been making arrests and indictments of mid-level officials. Mr. Perkel’s work prior to OPDAT with the District of Arizona USAO and the New York District Attorney’s Office focused on gang related crime, white collar crime and embezzlement, and border related crime including trafficking in drugs and firearms, and human smuggling.