Twenty years investigating organized crime from the inside.
INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING AND INVESTIGATION
Twenty years posing as a gangsterinside organised crime. Now working for the other side.
Chris Mathers Inc. advises banks, mining companies, law firms and governments on financial crime — from anti-money laundering programmes and cross-border due diligence to fraud recovery and workplace investigations.
UNDERCOVER OPERATIVERCMP · DEA · US Customs
FORMER PRESIDENTKPMG Corporate Intelligence
AUTHORCrime School: Money Laundering
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PRACTICE AREAS
What we're brought in to do
Engagements typically begin when something has already gone wrong — or when a board needs to know whether it has.
INVESTIGATION
Financial crime
Investigation of complex fraud, corruption and money laundering, domestically and across borders.
COMPLIANCE
Anti-money laundering
Programme design, independent review and remediation for regulated financial institutions.
INVESTIGATION
Due diligence
Foreign and domestic background investigation on counterparties, acquisitions and key hires.
RECOVERY
Fraud loss recovery
Tracing and recovering assets after internal fraud, misappropriation or third-party loss.
SECURITY
Mining sector security
Physical security and internal controls reviews for mine sites and supply chains.
SECURITY
Cyber-security and forensics
Digital forensic examination and electronic counter-measures sweeps.
WORKPLACE
Harassment investigations
Independent, defensible inquiries into workplace harassment and misconduct.
ADVISORY
Expert witness
Expert evidence and litigation support in matters involving organised and financial crime.
ADVISORY
Crisis intervention
Executive coaching and crisis response for leadership teams under acute pressure.
TRAINING
Training programmes
Courses designed and delivered for banks, government, law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
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ABOUT CHRIS MATHERS
He spent most of his career pretending to be a criminal.
Chris Mathers worked undercover for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the US Drug Enforcement Administration and the US Customs Service. Posing as a gangster, a drug trafficker and a money launderer, he spent years inside the organisations most institutions spend fortunes trying to keep out.
The people who commit these crimes are not abstractions. Chris has sat across the table from them.
In 1995 he joined the forensic division of KPMG, and in 1999 was appointed President of KPMG Corporate Intelligence Inc., responsible for international due diligence, asset recovery, and the investigation and prevention of organised crime and money laundering.
He has consulted on feature films and documentaries about organised crime, espionage and money laundering, and appears regularly as a commentator on North American networks and on outlets across Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the Caribbean.
COVER IMAGE
Crime School: Money LaunderingNational bestseller Find the book
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
A keynote on how criminals actually think
Chris takes audiences into the underworld — hiring decisions, background checks, laundering schemes, bribery, extortion — with the detail only someone who lived there can supply. Unusually for the subject matter, he is very funny.
CONTACT
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GENERAL ENQUIRIES
CANADA
55 University Avenue, Suite 900
Toronto, Ontario M5H 2J7
(416) 451-8061
UNITED STATES
Sausalito, California
(415) 948-1903
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