John A. Cassara
Former Special Agent, U.S. Treasury Department
John A. Cassara is a former U.S. intelligence officer and Treasury Special Agent. He retired after a 26 year career in the federal government intelligence and law enforcement communities. He is considered an expert in anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, with particular expertise in the areas of money laundering in the Middle East and the growing threat of alternative remittance systems and forms of trade-based money laundering and value transfer. Since his retirement, he has lectured in the United States and around the world on a variety transnational crime issues. He is a industry advisor for SAS - the analytics company.
Hawala networks and terror finance are in the news again. These networks have been used by ISIS in war-torn Syria and Iraq, and were reportedly used to help finance the 2015 ISIS attacks in Paris. [...] More
