Chris Mathers

Advisor
Corporate Risk & Crime Consulting

Chris Mathers spent most of his career working undercover for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, US Drug Enforcement Administration and the US Customs Service, posing as a gangster, a drug trafficker and a money launderer. He is the author of CRIME SCHOOL: Money Laundering.

At the time of his retirement, he was the senior undercover operator at the RCMP Proceeds of Crime Section where he established and operated a number of “storefront” money laundering businesses in Canada and the US, targeting Colombian, Russian and Asian organized crime groups. Chris personally infiltrated criminal organizations in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe.

In 1995, Chris joined the Forensic division of the international accounting firm, KPMG. In 1999, he was appointed to the position of President of KPMG Corporate Intelligence Inc. where he was responsible for international due diligence, asset recovery operations and the investigation and prevention of organized crime and money laundering.

In 2004, Chris established his own firm, CHRIS MATHERS INC. where he provides crime and risk consulting services to selected domestic and international clients, specializing in cyber-crime, foreign and domestic due diligence, fraud, money laundering and terrorism.

In 2005, Chris concluded an offshore asset tracing assignment on behalf of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme in Iraq.

In 2012, CHRIS MATHERS INC. established an office in Abuja, Nigeria, where they are conducting anti-corruption operations and providing technical assistance to the Nigerian authorities, on behalf of the U.K. government.

Chris is a popular media commentator and speaker and has served as a consultant on several feature films and documentaries relating to organized crime, espionage and money laundering. He has appeared on television and radio interviews on CNN, PBS, MSNBC, all of the Canadian national news networks as well as media outlets in Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the Caribbean.

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