Hong Kong ‘No Consent’ letters not guaranteed to freeze bank accounts
The Hong Kong Police Commissioner’s use of the ‘No Consent Regime’ to encourage three banks to freeze customer bank accounts, in circumstances where the banks had no independent suspicion of unlawful activity by bank account holders, was unlawful. The decision is relevant for a bank which receives information from the police about a customer’s account where the bank has no prior suspicions of its own: Tam Sze Leung & ors v Commissioner of Police [2021] HKCFI 3118.
Guest Article, Thomas J. Dover, Ph.D., FBI
Using Research for Investigative Decision-Making
When using research to help inform decisions during investigations, decision makers must understand its legitimate use and limitations.
Key challenges in 2022 for in house investigations teams and white-collar crime lawyers
Learn from Graham S., Head Investigation Team and his views on key challenges in 2022 for in house investigations teams and white collar crime lawyers, and how to meet the challenges and manage the associated risks.
Correlating websites hosted on the same Cloudflare account
Cloudflare has been an asset to cyber crime organizations due to their ability to hide IP addresses using their reverse proxy service, however it can also be an asset for researchers trying to investigate these organizations by correlating different websites hosted under their ownership
Malta uses EU “RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN” to white wash court judgements
Earlier this year, the Republic of Malta quietly passed the the Online Publication of Court Judgments Conferment of Functions Regulations, 2021 Act., which means that Maltese Court documents become unreliable sources of information on a target individual.
Artefaktum contributions for EUROPOL`s IOCTA 2021
Artefaktum is thankful for having been asked for expert opinions to support Europol`s 2021 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) which is the most comprehensive overview of the up-to-date cybercrime threat landscape IOCTA provides a law enforcement-focused assessment of evolving threats and key developments in the area of cybercrime. The accelerated digitalization related to the […]
Investigation and seizure of digital currency in criminal cases.
In this article we want to analyze the international and national legal regulation of the digital currencies circulation at the present stage, to assess the state of crime with the illegal use of these assets, to identify the features of the investigating such crimes and to substantiate proposals aimed at improving legislation and law enforcement […]
Fast Track to verify Email addresses
The capability to verify email addresses / accounts by username is often time-consuming. In this article we introduce a very effective tool.
What is a Boiler Room?
Boiler room scams can be incredibly convincing and meticulously pulled off. There are reports of incidents where people have lost their life savings to a boiler room scam and were unable to recover these funds. In this guide, we explain exactly what boiler room fraud is and ten common signs of boiler room scams.
Big money on the move
Rule Number one: Follow the money trails.
