open source intelligence

Webinar on open source intelligence, innovative investigative techniques & New Payment Methods in investigating Corruption in Southeast Asia

09 March 2021

14:00 - 16:00 Thailand Time

The UNODC Anti-Corruption Team organizes regular webinars like this one, many of which are open to the public. To find out about our events in advance, you are most welcome to reach out to us via email or Twitter, or to subscribe to our quarterly newsletter below.

Concept Note & Agenda

210302 OSINT Concept Note Agenda v.5.pdf

Please register by 02 March to attend this event. Please note as a closed webinar, this event can be attended by invitation-only. Previous recorded and publicly available UNODC webinars can be accessed here.

Webinar Moderator:

Francesco Checchi

Francesco Checchi is the Anti-Corruption Adviser for UNODC in Southeast Asia, working to support Member States with the implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption.

More about his team's work can be found here.

Webinar Speakers

Grace hin lai yee

Chief Investigator, Operations Department, Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Hong Kong, China

Grace joined the Operations Department of the ICAC in September 1996 and has gone through the ranks to the present position of Chief Investigator. Throughout her service with the ICAC, Grace has worked in different investigative branches dealing with corruption cases involving senior government officials and syndicated corruption scams. She has also led a number of high profile investigations and complex corruption-facilitated fraud cases in the banking sector. Since 2020, she has been in charge of an investigation team concerning tactical and strategic intelligence development and management for the Operations Department of the ICAC.

Jerome Bryssinck

Global Head of Government, Quantexa

Jerome Bryssinck has spent the last 15 years working with many large Government institutions globally in creating solution roadmaps and appropriate risk strategies to combat fraud and financial crime in the public sector.

Relevant government projects include the deployment of fraud detection systems covering multiple domains (e.g.: VAT Carousel fraud, offshore fraud, profit shifting) for the following countries: Belgium, Netherlands, Estonia, Spain, UK and Singapore. Jerome also advises Tax, Customs and Welfare administrations on financial crime issues in the following countries: Canada, Hungary, Australia, Greece, Saudi, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, France and Belgium.

Alex Caciuloiu

Cybercrime Coordinator, UNODC

Based with the Regional Office of UNODC for the Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Alex is responsible for building and strengthening the region's capabilities and response to cybercrime and cybersecurity.

Prior to joining UNODC, Alex was a Digital Crime Officer with INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation based in Singapore.

Peter Ritchie

Regional Anti-Corruption Adviser, American Bar Association (ABA) Rule of Law Initiative

Peter has led and supported many capacity building projects focusing on international cooperation against corruption, money laundering and transnational crime. In this role, he also co-designed and hosted major APEC programs on transnational crime and corruption, in partnership with the Philippines (2015), Peru (2016) and Vietnam (2017), and implemented anti-corruption projects throughout South-East Asia.

Earlier in his career, Peter was a Senior Analyst in the Office of Strategic Crime Assessments, focusing on transnational crime in the Asia-Pacific region. He produced various criminal intelligence assessments on transnational crime for the Australian Government, using both classified and open-source intelligence.

Peter Huppertz

Team Leader IT & eLearning, Basel Institute on Governance

Peter is responsible for managing the IT unit of the Basel Institute on Governance, a not-for-profit Swiss foundation dedicated to working with public and private partners around the world to prevent and combat corruption.

Peter plans and develops eLearning courses in cooperation with internal and external experts, manages the development of the Institute's Basel Open Intelligence tool and is responsible for the IT related development of the Basel AML Index.