Investigative Interviewing: Focus on Financial Crime
Course Introduction
Interviewing is a crucial part in any investigation into any occurrence involving fraud, corruption, money laundering and relayed financial crime. Interviewing carries mixed meanings and (mis)understandings of what investigative interviewing is. This course is NOT about ‘interrogation’. It is ‘conversation management’ and our main aim is to ‘design out’ common interviewing pitfalls and deal in method, skills and objectivity to a suitable standard of outcome and ethics for a court, hearing, tribunal, or other decision-making authority. The course is highly practical and aims to give confidence in interviewing persons involved in fraud, corruption or money laundering, and the challenges it brings. For example, we train you how to manage conversations and trigger disclosure. Balanced by carrying out clarification interviews of witnesses (including whistle-blowers) or providers of technical reports. How to capture, classify and evaluate disclosures.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
- Appraise evidence and fraud data briskly but thoroughly to fully prepare for interviews
- Gain strong confidence, overcoming the challenges; they start with you!
- Handle "lies” and a sensible inclusion of ‘body language’
- Ensure we totally avoid the word ‘interrogation’ using ‘conversation management’
- Learn how to use certain models and questioning styles effectively and ethically
- Learn how to trigger disclosure and capture detail using a new format – not note taking
- Use Cognitive skills to address those with ‘corporate amnesia’ ‘corporate vulnerability’ ‘diverting and blocking,’ conversational bullies, ‘coded responses’ ‘numbers people’….found among ‘sophisticated’ fraud and corruption criminals
- Practice skilled assertion
Who Should Attend?
This course is highly recommended for the following:
- CFO’s
- Compliance Managers
- Internal Auditors
- HR Managers
- Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs)
- Regulators / Officers / Enforcement
- In-house Counsel