Malkara Consulting is an Australian firm established by Chris Douglas, a former Australian Federal Police Officer with extensive experience in law enforcement, banking and training.

Specialising in the provision of training workshops and advice, Malkara Consulting provide comprehensive programs on money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption and bribery, and financial investigations.

Each workshop offered by Malkara Consulting is designed and run by Chris Douglas and can be custom designed to meet the needs of the client and their desired outcomes. Close liaison with the client will ensure deficiencies in operational capabilities are identified and mature capabilities are enhanced. The chosen program is then designed around this information resulting in a course that ensures the organisation is capable to respond to existing and future threats or risks.

Malkara ClientsA range of clients will benefit from the training workshops offered by Malkara Consulting including: • Financial intelligence units • Anti money laundering regulators • Law enforcement and revenue agencies - in particular police, anti corruption commissions, and customs and tax authorities • Prosecuting bodies • Legal and policy authorities • Financial institutions

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Malkara Training Workshops

The following workshops are currently offered to clients by Malkara Consulting:

• Anti-Corruption & Bribery

• Asset Tracing

• Business Structures

• Financial Investigations

• Fraud Awareness

• Humanity Crimes & Asset Tracing

• Money Laundering

• Sanctions Awareness

• Terrorist Financing

Malkara Consulting’s Chris Douglas served with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) for 31 years. During this time, Chris Douglas worked in intelligence and operational units in Sydney and Perth and has been involved in the conduct of investigations into:

• Drug trafficking• People smuggling• Human trafficking• Organised crime• Significant fraud committed against the Australian government

Chris Douglas has extensive experience in the investigation of money laundering and in the enforcement of forfeiture legislation, particularly civil forfeiture.

Significant Appointments

Significant amongst his appointments was Chris Douglas’ Chairmanship of the Joint Operational Coordination Team in Perth, coordinating all major drug operations within Western Australia (WA) and comprising operational commanders from the AFP, Australian Customs, the former National Crime Authority, and the West Australian Police Service.

Whilst in this appointment, Chris Douglas was operational commander for a multi-agency investigation which led to the seizure of almost one tonne of cocaine in WA, Australia’s largest seizure of that drug to date.

Chris Douglas established the Identity Security Strike Team in Perth which comprised investigators from WA Police, Customs, Immigration, Australian Crime Commission (ACC) and the AFP.

For several years he chaired an identity crime working group comprising representatives from all major Commonwealth and State agencies investigating or dealing with identity crime.

Chris Douglas holds a Bachelor of Business Degree (Accounting), a Graduate Certificate in Applied Management and is a graduate of the 73rd Police Management Development Program from the Australian Institute of Police Management.

He has completed a Triad Course and Financial Investigations course both conducted by the Hong Kong Police in Hong Kong.

Chris Douglas has been twice awarded an Australia Day Medallion for services to Commonwealth law enforcement and in 2012 received the award of the Australian Police Medal during the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Law Enforcement Experience

Throughout his final 4 years of service, Chris Douglas engaged in the design and delivery of investigation training programs that covered financial investigations, money laundering, bribery and corruption, terrorist financing and proceeds of crime. He presented these programs to Australian law enforcement agencies in Australia and to representatives of law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, customs officers, judges and financial intelligence units overseas.

Training HistoryChris Douglas’ capacity building achievements include delivering training and providing operational advice in the following jurisdictions:

Australia:• AUSTRAC• Australian Customs & Border Protection Service • Australian Crime Commission• Australian Federal Police• Australian Taxation Office• New South Wales Police• South Australia Police• Queensland Police• Victoria Police• Western Australia Police• QLD Crime & Corruption Commission• Department of Immigration and Border Protection

China:• The People’s Procuratorate of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province• Ministry of Public Security

Fiji:• Fiji Police• Fiji Customs & Revenue Authority• Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption

Indonesia:• PPATK (Indonesia’s FIU)• Corruption & Eradication Commission• Indonesian Customs• Indonesian Police Force• Indonesian Taxation Office

Malaysia• Royal Malaysian Police Force

New Zealand• New Zealand Police Force• Financial Intelligence Unit• Inland Revenue• Organised and Financial Crime Agency of New Zealand

Pakistan• Anti-Terror Court Judges• Financial Monitoring Unit (FIU of Pakistan)• Federal Investigation Agency• National Accountability Bureau• Ministry of Interior

Sri Lanka• Sri Lanka Police Force• Attorney General’s Department• Financial Intelligence Unit of Sri Lanka• Maldives Police Force

United Arab Emirates:• Abu Dhabi Police

Training Experience

In Australia, Chris Douglas designed and delivered money laundering training to officersfrom China (Mainland), Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and New Zealand.

Chris Douglas has also designed and delivered training workshops in Australia to staff from the following financial institutions:

• Australia & New Zealand Bank• Bank of Communications Co. Ltd• China Construction Bank Corporation• Citigroup• Commonwealth Bank of Australia• Gold Corporation (Perth Mint)• HSBC

• Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC)• Macquarie Bank• National Australia Bank• PayPal Australia• Travelex• Westpac Bank

Banking ExperienceIn 2014 Chris Douglas worked in the Financial Crime Services area of the National Australia Bank reviewing Anti-Money Laundering & Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) policy and designing and delivering training on money laundering, corruption, sanctions, terrorist financing and fraud to over 300 bank staff engaged in CDD/KYC and sanctions monitoring and reporting.

Financial Institutions in Australia

Malkara Consulting’s training workshops are designed to assist countries and organisations by implementing the international standard of methodology developed during the fourth round of mutual evaluations conducted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in 2012.

Two inter-related components are used to assess compliance with the FATF Recommendations:

1. A technical compliance assessment This assessment addresses the specific requirements of the FATF Recommendations, namely the relevant legal and institutional framework of the country and the powers and procedures used by authorities in combating money laundering and terrorist financing. According to the FATF these components represent the fundamental building blocks of an AML/CFT system.

2. An effectiveness assessment This assessment examines the adequacy of the implementation of the FATF Recommendations. It seeks to achieve this by assessing how a country achieves a set of 11 specific immediate outcomes. According to the FATF the effectiveness assessment involves an analysis of the extent to which the immediate outcomes are achieved by a country to build an effective AML/CFT system.

Achieving Effectiveness

The training workshops delivered by Malkara Consulting address all of the 11 immediate outcomes outlined in the manual “FATF Methodology for assessing technical compliance with the FATF Recommendations and the effectiveness of AML/CFT Systems”.

In addition, these training workshops draw on Chris Douglas’ extensive operational police experience into the investigation of money laundering, terrorist financing, breaches of sanctions regimes, corruption offences and the recovery of proceeds of crime from serious offences using both conviction based and civil based forfeiture.

Malkara Consulting is the only Australian firm with the knowledge and experience to deliver training workshops to the law

enforcement, intelligence and financial sector.

Malkara Consulting believes in building capacity that lasts in the long term.

Effectiveness can only be achieved if local staff are trained and committed to achieving change in their approach to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and corruption.

In support of this belief, Malkara Consulting can deliver a 3 day train the trainer program at the end of each workshop to teach participants how to prepare for and deliver the training workshops in their organisation or country.

Building Lasting Capacity

Malkara Consulting is based in Perth, Western Australia, however training workshops can be delivered all over the world. Quotes for the delivery of Malkara Consulting’s training workshops are available upon request.

To find out how Malkara Consulting’s training workshops can benefit your organisation, contact Chris Douglas via the details below.

Australian clients please phone 0481 088 366International clients please phone +61 481 088 366Email enquiries can be directed to malkara.consulting@iinet.net.au

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