Following the Money: Crypto Crime & Asset Recovery
Crypto moves fast — and so does crypto crime.
Funds can move across wallets, exchanges, stablecoins and different blockchains in minutes, often across multiple countries at the same time.
So what happens when something goes wrong?
How are illicit funds being moved today? How do investigators follow the trail? And once stolen crypto is found, how difficult is it to actually freeze, seize or recover it?
Whether you’re building in crypto, investing, or just using it day to day, knowing what happens when funds are stolen or misused is becoming more important than ever.
We’ll explore:
How crypto is being used in fraud, scams and money laundering
How illicit funds move across wallets, exchanges and blockchains
The challenges of tracing and investigating cross-border crypto crime
What happens when stolen or illicit crypto is identified
How freezing, seizure and asset recovery work in practice
🍕 Beer. Pizza. Proof-of-Community.
📍 London — exact location revealed after registering
📅 August 17
Panellists (More to be confirmed)
Erica Stanford is a crypto, digital assets, stablecoins and AI specialist at international law firm CMS, where she advises in a non-legal capacity on cryptoasset risk, regulation, fraud, scams, digital crime and AI-enabled financial crime. She is the bestselling, award-winning author of Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption, which has been translated into 15 languages, and author of the forthcoming textbook Stablecoins: Law, Regulation and Technology, to be released in late 2020 by Edward Elgar . Erica writes and speaks internationally on crypto, stablecoins, digital-asset crime, fraud, emerging financial-crime risks and the role of AI in digital finance.
Charlotte Miller is the Deputy MLRO at Zodia Custody, bringing over 10 years' experience in AML and Financial Crime. Their career spans TradFi, working across all three lines of defence, before a personal fascination with crypto led them to make the move into digital assets around 15 months ago. Drawn by the idea of a new form of money that couldn't simply be held, and one where a token's story can often be told (traced), unlike a £20 note whose history is lost the moment it changes hands. At the same time, hearing that criminals were turning to this new form of money made them want to see, first hand, whether that was actually true.
Since then, Charlotte has focused on bringing that breadth of TradFi experience to the crypto industry, helping build robust practical AML frameworks that keep pace with an evolving regulatory landscape. Charlotte is passionate about bridging the gap between traditional finance and crypto and is looking forward to sharing these insights on the panel.
Christian d’Ippolito is a social entrepreneur, creator and Chief Commercial Officer at CoinDepo, working at the intersection of technology, social impact and community.
He is also the CEO and co-founder of The Spartan Project, a social enterprise using creativity and movement to create opportunities for young people, and has spent much of his career building partnerships between brands, charities and communities. Through his work with CoinDepo and his own experience with digital assets, Christian brings a perspective on crypto shaped by both its potential and its very real risks.
Moderated by Wasim Ahmad. Wasim has spent decades at the exact point where deep, difficult technology meets everyday people. His crypto journey began with AlphaPoint, working with the founding team that launched some of the world’s first cryptocurrency trading exchanges. He then joined Vault12, the pioneer of crypto inheritance, where the mathematics of Adi Shamir’s Secret Sharing — became a product that lets people pass their digital assets safely to the ones they love. Most recently, he has been lobbying hard in both the United States and the United Kingdom — engaging with the SEC, CFTC and the FCA — to evolve the laws and regulations governing crypto, so that everyday people can access these technologies safely and confidently. He is now the author of a book on everyday cryptography: "Who holds the key?", an everyday guide to cryptography, passwords, crypto wallets, and navigating the technology that protects your privacy in the modern world.
AGENDA:
6:30pm - Arrival, networking
7:15pm - Panel begins
8:00pm - Networking resumes, food served
9:30pm - Event concludes
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Huge shoutout to our venue partner ReedSmith for hosting us!
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Expect: The usual CML energy
Food, drinks, sharp conversation & Proof-of-Community™
📅 Monday 17 August
📍 Location revealed upon registration
⏰ 6:30–9:30pm
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