Richard Gould
Richard Gould
Richard Gould
Richard spent more than 30 years in law enforcement almost entirely dedicated to combatting financial crime. He has worked within the UK Customs, the Serious Fraud Office and finally the National Crime Agency where he was the Head of the Financial Investigation Profession and the Senior Responsible Officer for the Money Laundering Expert Witness cadre.
As an assessor for the Financial Action Taskforce’s 4th round of Mutual Evaluations Richard co-authored the Israel Report. He also led a law enforcement working group supporting preparations for the UK MER.
Richard is now a Director of Illicit Finance Consulting Limited. IFC Limited provides consultancy services for governments and national law enforcement agencies across the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and the Middle/Far East on both policy and operational issues related to the combatting money laundering, terrorist financing and economic crime.
In 2023 Richard completed the delivery of a year-long programme of activities for the UNODC in the Caribbean and Central America related to Trade Based Money Laundering. During 2024 he has also been designing and delivering the UNODC global training programme relating to free trade zones. This is currently being rolled out across Africa with South America scheduled for 2025.
Richard is a member of the FCDO’s Civilian Stabilisation Unit cadre of experts specialising in illicit finance and an Honorary Lecturer at Portsmouth University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
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18-Mar-2025Main StageUK FATF 2027: Challenges, opportunities and strategic preparedness