“The Infiltrator” – Why Nearly $2 Trillion is Laundered Every Year
Robert Mazur reveals why 98% of the nearly $2 trillion in illicit funds laundered each year moves undetected into the world economy. He shares insights from a platform built on his New York Times bestselling book, The Infiltrator, which is the basis for the internationally released film of the same name, starring Bryan Cranston.
With a combination of insight gained from years of operating undercover as a sophisticated money launderer and endless time spent studying the most significant current cases, Mr. Mazur arms his audiences with critical knowledge. Among other things:
- He helps compliance personnel improve their detection of customers most likely involved in the movement of significant amounts of illicit funds.
- He defines how black money markets operate around the globe.
- He exposes detailed schemes currently used by corrupt professionals, institutions and businesses.
- He identifies the geographic areas, types of transaction patterns, types of businesses, and types of products that are most often linked to illicit funds.
- He sheds light on the latest aspects of terrorist financing.
- He explains why there is now a massive influx of illicit funds into China and how that threat impacts transactions globally.
- He enlightens audiences about the real place that cryptocurrency has in the legal and illegal markets.
Mr. Mazur’s presentations are gripping and transform today’s abstract headlines about complicated global money laundering techniques into easily understood principals that become ingrained in the minds of his audiences, who soak up everything he shares from the edge of their seats.
The Arts of Persuasion & Negotiation
(Executive Learning Session)
Building rapport, gaining trust, and earning credibility are critical elements to the success of your professional and personal lives. There are very distinct steps we can all take to improve our ability to establish solid and positive bonds with our bosses, employees, peers and clients. Afterall, no matter where you go or what you do, people are people. How well you project yourself and your ability to assess others is fundamental to your prevailing in all aspects of life.
Robert Mazur shares the secrets of persuading and negotiating. He identifies the insights he honed from psychologists and others when he was trained to become a highly successful undercover agent. His mastering of these skills is evident from his NY Times bestselling book, The Infiltrator, about his many years living within the underworld as a highly sophisticated money launderer for some of the world’s most ruthless criminals, including Pablo Escobar. His survival within the underworld, convincing drug traffickers, terrorists and corrupt bankers that he was one of them, speaks volumes.
Through a riveting presentation that includes demonstrative videos and role playing, Robert explains the steps one needs to take to:
- Identify the most critical issues about others
- Learn how to interpret verbal and nonverbal cues
- Properly develop a macro and micro operational plan to succeed in relationship building
- Find answers with silence and active listening
- Earn trust and credibility
- Learn the power of passive reinforcements
- Discover how to neutralize those intent on obstructing your success
- Exploit the power of an unwitting source
- Naturally train yourself to be the best “you”
Masterclass
The Invisible Network
This Masterclass is presented in two sessions by New York Times bestselling author Robert Mazur. He shares in-depth knowledge about money laundering methods and rarely detected red-flags that can unmask the most sophisticated laundering techniques. He expounds on events featured in his book, The Infiltrator, and demonstrates how the secrets shared with him by the world’s sleaziest bankers and most powerful organized crime figures breathe life into many of today’s highest profile money laundering scandals. These two sessions leave no doubt why Hollywood embraced Mazur’s experiences as the basis for the internationally released film by the same name, starring Bryan Cranston.
Session 1 (90 minutes) – How Black Money Markets Work:
Mazur shares his real-life experience as an underworld money launderer. He provides detail about how he infiltrated Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel and a complicit international bank as a money broker. He explains, in detail, the techniques offered by a corrupt international bank to attract deposits from specific types of customers (drug traffickers, illegal arms dealers, sanction busters, tax evaders, pilferers of treasuries, etc.) possessing money seeking secrecy from governments. He intricately explains the role he played, along with dirty bankers and businessmen, in the black money markets, an activity that lives on in the underworld today. He enlightens the audience about how black money markets work, and how black money market operators launder billions in illicit funds through trade based transactions.
Session 2 (90 minutes) – The Latest Faces of Money Laundering:
Mazur dissects issues about negotiable instruments that flow through black money markets, and how a close examination of these instruments reveals important red-flags. Mazur demonstrates why many of these red-flags are immune to detection by anti-money laundering software. This session includes discussion about current day techniques used to launder money around the world. Mazur exposes techniques and jurisdictions most often used to block transparency (e.g. techniques seen in The Panama Papers). The types of businesses, products, geographic areas and transaction patterns often linked to money laundering risk are reviewed. A discussion about two of the more recent high-profile money laundering cases serves as a springboard for discussion about trade-based money laundering risk related to Africa, Venezuela, the Middle East and China. This presentation includes a discussion about cyber enabled crime and several cryptocurrency related money laundering cases that suggests illicit profits from certain cybercrimes (e.g. tax refund fraud, ransomware peddlers, hackers, dark web drug traffickers, etc.) are more frequently seeking haven in the digital currency world, and why the hundreds of billions in annual drug trafficking profits are not likely to follow that path.
