Nicholas McTaggart

Former Australian Federal Police Agent and former Head of the Australian Government’s Asset Confiscation Task Force, Nicholas retired from the Australia Federal Police after 38 years to commence his own consultancy business, The Murinbin Group.

Nicholas is a very experienced subject matter expert on Trans-national organised Crime and anti-money laundering and criminal asset identification and confiscation and how that impacts on business supply and value chains.  Nicholas has been engaged in strategic planning of whole of Government approaches to the problem over a number of years.

Nicholas was also the AFP’s representative on FATF and APG forums co-publishing two typology reports for those organisations, the first on TBML and second, the vulnerability of the Gold market to ML and TF.

Nicholas has consulted AUSTRAC, Fiji Revenue and Customs and other public and private sector entities. He has facilitated workshops and training on Trade Base Money Laundering (TBML) for organisations such as NZ Customs and other NZ government agencies and Malaysian Financial Institutions.

Nicholas has engaged with the NGO, Freeland, to help facilitate and mentor Government agencies involved in disruption of illegal supply chains relating to wildlife and People trafficking in Asia and South America by ‘following the money’.