SATELLITE VIEW
Tell me about the work you do with banks. We got involved there because there were a lot of false Bills of Lading being issued, things like cargoes that don’t exist but with the Bill of Lading presented and people running away with the money, for example. Over the years it’s grown because now you have collusion between buyers and sellers and, in addition to fraud, there is money laundering and sanctions evasion and that’s a niche area we advise the banking industry on. All banks use our services to varying degrees to make sure there is an underlying trade to every transaction and the documents presented are genuine and not fabricated or cloned. Are you constantly surprised by the new methods fraudsters use to deceive? Does it make the job more fun? To an extent. IMB was started by an ex-
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