Sanctions Masterclass: Current Sanctions Evasion Typologies and Future Threats

Justine draws on a diverse global career, working across government, regulatory, private sector, and international organisations. As an expert on sanctions, counterterrorism, and financial crime she has held specialist positions within the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, HM Treasury, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Central Asia), the British Bankers’ Association, and UK Finance. In addition, Justine was formerly part of the UK delegation to the Financial Action Task Force, chaired the European Banking Federation’s Sanctions Expert Group, co-chaired the UK Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce’s counterterrorist financing group and served as an International Monetary Fund advisor to Nigeria. She has acted as an independent Syria sanctions-humanitarian expert to the United Nations, and previously served as a national expert on the financing of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)/counter proliferation financing matters. 
 
In her role within ACAMS, the world’s leading membership organization with a presence in over 180 jurisdictions, Justine oversees the subject-matter-expert division. A regular contributor to media publications covering financial-crime issues, she has addressed UN expert groupings, given evidence to parliamentary hearings, and authored numerous publications. Justine also holds a Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews and an M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh.

Paige Berges is counsel in Ropes and Gray’s Anti-Corruption and International Risk group. She is a U.S. and UK qualified lawyer with broad cross-border experience conducting internal investigations, managing white collar defence and advising on pro-active compliance programme building. She advises financial institutions/FinTechs, private equity firms, corporate and NGO/charity clients on compliance with Economic and Trade Sanctions, Export Controls, Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-terrorist financing, and Anti-Corruption regulations. In addition to U.S., UK and pan-European practice, Paige brings significant experience helping clients build compliance programmes across Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and the MENA region. Paige also has a strong background in public international law and regularly advises on human rights and humanitarian law and the intersection between financial crime, sanctions and ESG.

Sam Cousins is a Senior Associate at ACAMS, where his work includes supporting public-private partnerships and strengthening ACAMS thought leadership pillar through the development of content on sanctions and risk, particularly the Sanctions Masterclass program and Global Monthly Update. Sam's work also focuses on countering ransomware financing, which includes enhancing industry awareness of the anti-financial crime risks associated with ransomware attacks and supporting the mitigation of those risks through policies, training and public-private dialogue.

Prior to ACAMS, Sam worked on the Sanctions Policy team at UK Finance - the trade association for the UK banking sector.

Oleg Pobereyko currently serves as the Project Leader for the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5) Cyber & Enablers Groups, an operational alliance in the fight against international and transnational tax crime and money laundering, consisting of the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Australian Tax Office (ATO), Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), and Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD). In this role, Mr. Pobereyko overseas the J5 Private Public Partnership and Operational and Intelligence strategy and efforts, delivering impactful tax crime and related money laundering investigations within the cyber and virtual currency spaces to the J5 member countries by crowdsourcing data, innovation, and expertise. Additionally, Mr. Pobereyko also represents IRS-CI in Five Eyes and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) which is an intergovernmental economic organization with 37 member countries established to stimulate economic progress and world trade, where he collaborates with domestic and international law enforcement partners and governmental entities involved in cyber related sanctions matters. Overall, Mr. Pobereyko strives to combat transnational tax crime through increased enforcement collaboration: working together to gather information, sharing intelligence, conducting operations, and expanding the capacity of tax crime enforcement officials.

Mr. Pobereyko began his career with IRS-CI in 2010 as a Special Agent in Los Angeles, California. Since becoming a Special Agent, Mr. Pobereyko has investigated a wide range of criminal offenses and received multiple awards for his investigative and leadership excellence. Mr. Pobereyko has served in multiple leadership positions within the agency, including Supervisory Special Agent for Western Cyber Crime Unit. Mr. Pobereyko holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.

IRS-CI is a premier financial investigative agency and the only agency that can investigate criminal violations of the Internal Revenue Code.  The agency consists of approximately 2,200 law enforcement agents in 20 domestic field offices and 11 international posts.  The agency’s investigative priorities are comprised of three interdependent programs: Legal Source Tax Crimes; Illegal Source Financial Crimes; and Narcotics-Related/Counterterrorism Financial Crimes.  As financial investigators, IRS-CI special agents fill a unique niche in the federal law enforcement community as today’s sophisticated schemes to defraud the government and other victims demand superior investigative abilities to analyze complex financial records and transactions.  IRS-CI’s conviction rate is one of the highest in federal law enforcement.

Special Agent Jonathan Schnatz is a Senior Analyst with IRS Criminal Investigation. Jonathan chairs the IRS:CI Professional Enabler Group as part of the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5). The J5 is an alliance between the criminal tax authorities of Australia, Canada, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States focused on combatting transnational tax and financial crimes. The Enabler Group collaborates through sharing intelligence to identify and disrupt offshore service providers, promoters, and financial institutions facilitating financial crimes.

Prior to this position, Jonathan was a Senior Analyst within Global Operations - International Field Operations, where he managed the Voluntary Disclosure Practice and was instrumental in working with internal and external stakeholders to modernize the practice. He served as the Acting Deputy Attaché at the US Embassy in London, UK and worked with government and law enforcement personnel from various European countries to further the mission of IRS:CI. Jonathan started his career with IRS:CI in the Philadelphia Field Office and focused on investigating public corruption and international abusive tax schemes before being promoted to a   Supervisory Special Agent where he supervised a group of agents in multiple states and directed investigations involving tax fraud, money laundering, narcotics, public corruption, international tax schemes, and national security.

Prior to joining IRS Criminal Investigation in 2000, he worked in public accounting and has a dual degree in Accounting and Finance from DeSales University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in the State of Pennsylvania. 

George is a global expert anti-financial crime at ACAMS and member of ACAMS' global SMEs team. He previously headed the Paris branch of a leading corporate intelligence consultancy and has strong credentials in corporate investigations and political risk analysis.

An ACAMS-certified global sanctions specialist (CGSS) and certified anti-money laundering specialist (CAMS), he has expertise in the geopolitics, security and economics of wider Europe and the former Soviet Union. George has written extensively on international affairs and has published to date two books and hundreds of articles.