1-Day Workshop · 24 Aug 2026 · Amara Singapore
Criminal proceeds move through mule accounts, shell entities, payment systems, trade transactions, and cryptocurrency channels designed to obscure ownership and control.
This workshop helps officers understand how money actually moves, so they can interpret financial activity more clearly, uncover hidden links, and pursue investigations more effectively.
Why This Matters
Money laundering, scam proceeds, concealed assets, and cross-border transfers rarely present themselves clearly. Funds move through systems built for speed, scale, and limited visibility. Investigators must understand those systems before they can interpret the trail.
Funds can move across banks, jurisdictions, payment processors, and trade structures before investigators identify the first suspicious transaction. Speed favours those trying to conceal the trail.
Mule accounts, shell entities, cryptocurrency conversions, and cross-border transactions can make linked activity appear disconnected. Without understanding the layering, important leads are easily missed.
CTR, COSMIC, ACRA API, MYINFO, MEPS, CDP, and blockchain records may hold useful intelligence. The challenge is knowing how to connect, interpret, and apply that information in an investigation.
The Capability Gap
Many officers can access financial records. Far fewer have been shown how money moves through the systems that generate those records.
Suspicious transfers may look unrelated until officers recognise the larger movement pattern behind them.
Corporate entities, nominees, mule accounts, and intermediaries can obscure who truly controls the funds.
Cryptocurrency transfers, database records, and banking trails may still reveal useful links when investigators know what to look for.
Follow The Money Trail closes this gap by helping officers understand the mechanics behind financial movement, concealment, and recovery.
About This Workshop
Follow The Money Trail is a one-day, case-study-driven workshop led by a former banking fraud and AML leader.
It helps Singapore government officers understand how funds move through banking systems, shell entities, payment infrastructure, trade transactions, cryptocurrency channels, and cross-border networks.
Who Should Attend
Relevant to officers investigating suspicious transactions, concealed assets, scam proceeds, cross-border financial movements, and money laundering activity.
No prior banking or finance background is required. The workshop starts from first principles and uses practical case examples throughout.
Key Take-aways
Each take-away is framed around practical investigative use — not theory alone.
Trace how funds move through banks, correspondent networks, payment processors, and alternative channels.
Apply placement, layering, and integration concepts to real scam, fraud, and asset-concealment scenarios.
Identify red flags, movement patterns, mule account structures, and suspicious transaction behaviour.
Understand what public ledgers can reveal, what may be recoverable, and where tracing limits begin.
Use CTR, COSMIC, ACRA API, MYINFO, MEPS, and CDP more effectively in financial investigations.
Analyse how scam proceeds move through accounts, jurisdictions, entities, and digital channels.
Programme Outline
The programme moves from international money movement mechanics through money laundering detection and transaction analysis, culminating in practical use of Singapore's investigative databases and digital tools.
Pre-Requisites
Included in This Course
Why This Workshop Is Different
Follow The Money Trail is not designed as a generic compliance briefing. It is built for officers who need to interpret financial movement, identify concealed links, and support investigative decisions.
Your Facilitator
Mr Larry Lam brings more than two decades of frontline experience in uncovering complex fraud schemes, money-laundering activities, and financial misconduct across the banking and corporate sectors. He previously led fraud-investigation and AML teams in major financial institutions, where he handled high-value internal fraud, cross-border illicit fund flows, and sophisticated scam networks.
His investigative work has contributed to the successful resolution of several high-profile fraud cases. These experiences shape his practical, intelligence-driven approach to training — grounded in what actually happens inside the banking system, not what textbooks say should happen.
Larry has trained officers from numerous Singapore government agencies, including enforcement, regulatory, and financial oversight bodies. His sessions are known for turning real-world investigative techniques into clear, actionable skills. He served as Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore from 2010 to 2020, teaching forensic accounting and financial crime analytics — reinforcing his standing as one of the region's leading voices in anti-scam and financial investigation.
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Secure Your Place
24 Aug 2026 · Amara Singapore · 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
By Invitation — Singapore Government Officers Only. Registration subject to eligibility verification.