Muhammad
Imran
Mr. Muhammad Imran is the Head of the International Cooperation Branch of the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD). It is the principal unit that handles and renders formal and informal assistance to foreign counterparts for financial crime matters related to Singapore. This includes the consideration to seize assets based on the information and nexus provided, as well as sharing useful financial intelligence to assist foreign counterparts in their investigation. Additionally, he is Singapore’s law enforcement point-of-contact in the Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network Asia Pacific (ARIN-AP).
Mr. Imran has more than 13 years’ experience with the Singapore Police Force (SPF), particularly specializing in the field of financial investigation and financial intelligence. He has taken on various postings at CAD, including with Singapore’s Financial Intelligence Unit, the Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office (STRO), the Proceeds of Crime Unit and the International Cooperation Branch. He was also part of the CAD team in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s Mutual Evaluation of Singapore in 2016 and had been appointed a trainer with the Home Team School of Criminal Investigation in 2017.
In addition to his experience at CAD, Mr. Imran had a three-year stint with INTERPOL, where he was a Criminal Intelligence Officer with the INTERPOL Financial Crime Unit/Centre from 2019 to 2022. He worked with member countries to coordinate transnational financial crime investigations and asset recovery matters, raise awareness on emerging financial fraud schemes and bridge the gap between Financial Intelligence Units and law enforcement agencies. He represented INTERPOL at various international fora, including engagements with global stakeholders such as the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime (GCFFC), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units and Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA).
Mr. Imran holds a bachelor’s degree of Business from the Nanyang Technological University. He is also a certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS), and holds a postgraduate Diploma in Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financial Terrorism (AML/CFT) from the International Compliance Association (ICA).