About Us

Simon enjoyed a 31-year career in UK law enforcement, initially with HM Revenue & Customs and then with the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency and the National Crime Agency. Simon trained as a financial investigator in 2004 and from then on worked exclusively in the field of money laundering, first as an investigator, and then as a senior intelligence analyst. His latest posting was to the Economic Crime desk of the NCA’s National Assessment Centre, where he wrote numerous strategic intelligence assessments on the money laundering threat from various jurisdictions and typologies. Simon also acted as deputy co-ordinator of the NCA’s Expert Laundering Evidence cadre, regularly providing expert evidence in complex money laundering cases, and recruiting, training and mentoring other expert witnesses.

Simon has extensive experience in delivering upskilling training to law enforcement agencies and private sector bodies in the UAE, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey, amongst others. He represented the UK on the Money Laundering Working Group of the Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group. Simon has also worked with FATF and was the author of the report ‘Money Laundering Through the Physical Transfer of Cash’, published by FATF in October 2015.

Simon retired from the NCA in April 2021 and since then has acted as an anti-money laundering consultant through his business, Protect AML Services Ltd. Since May, Simon has provided assistance, advice and training on numerous subjects, including the criminal abuse of cryptoassets, informal value transfer systems and trade-based money laundering to various audiences in Eastern Europe, Africa, South America and Central and South East Asia and has also provided money laundering training to UN war crime investigators. Amongst other work, Simon is currently involved in a project assisting the Government of the Sultanate of Oman to prepare for their upcoming FATF mutual evaluation.