Podcast: Tony McClements on fraud investigations, asset tracing and whistleblowing

Tony McClements spoke about work as a fraud investigator and detective, touching on whistleblowing, asset tracing, and the Allen Stanford case.

In this episode, GRIP’s commissioning editor Jean Hurley spoke with Tony McClements, former detective and head of investigations at Martin Kenney & Co, a specialist litigation practice in the British Virgin Islands which specializes in large-scale global asset recovery litigation.

We discussed:

  • types of fraud and investigation techniques;
  • the recent high-profile fraud case concerning Allen Stanford;
  • differences between civil, public and private criminal prosecutions;
  • romance fraud and pig butchering;
  • asset tracing in the UK and the US – how social media can be useful;
  • how banks can work more collaboratively with the police; and
  • working with whistleblowers and how to get good outcomes.

A transcript for this podcast is available here.