Mario Possamai is a Senior Investigator at Lindquist Avey Macdonald Baskerville Inc., an international firm of forensic accountants and corporate investigators with offices in Canada (in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Calgary), in the United States (in Washington, D.C., Dallas, Atlanta, and Philadelphia) and in London, England. An internationally recognized authority on money laundering, Possamai has investigated many high-profile cases, including being a member of a special team that probed allegations of procurement fraud, with an exposure of several hundred million dollars, at a Fortune 500 multinational corporation. Often interviewed by print and broadcast journalists, Possamai is a frequent lecturer to law enforcement in Canada and the United States on money laundering, fraud, corruption and organized crime issues. Relevant Experience a) Author of Money On The Run: Canada And How The World's Dirty Profits Are Laundered. Published in 1992 by Penguin Books of Canada, it examined the history and development of money laundering from a Canadian perspective. A paperback edition was issued in 1993 and a French-language edition was published in 1994. A review in the Toronto Globe and Mail stated: "Mr. Possamai shows with stark clarity how vulnerable the international financial system remains and how difficult it is to catch any but the dumbest of launderers and to track down their ill-gotten loot." b) Co-Chairman of the "International Anti-Corruption Co-operation" Session at the Seventh International Anti-Corruption Conference in Beijing, China in October 1995. As well, he presented a paper at the conference entitled "The Effective Prevention and Detection of Corruption: A Practical Framework." c) Chairman of the "Fiscal Simulation and the Process of Money Laundering" Workshop at the Sixth International Anti-Corruption Conference in Cancun, Mexico in November 1993. He also presented a paper at the conference entitled "The Missing Millions: Perspectives on the tracing and recovery of assets corruptly acquired by heads of state, government officials and others." This paper has been published in Money Laundering, Asset Forfeiture & International Financial Crimes, a three-volume reference work published by Oceana Publications of New York City. d) Possamai is a guest lecturer on money laundering issues at the U.S. Federal Law Enforcement Training Center at Glynco, Georgia, where, among other things, he participated in a special training program for Polish law enforcement in February 1994, and at the Ontario Police College in Aylmer, Ontario. e) Possamai was a Moderator and Panelist at the Third Annual International Conference on Money Laundering, Forfeiture, Asset Recovery, Offshore Investments and International Financial Crimes, which was held in February 1995 in Miami, Florida. It was co-sponsored by Oceana Publications and the Centre for International Financial Crimes Studies, College of Law, University of Florida. f) In November 1994, Possamai was a panelist and organizer of an international symposium on meeting the threat of the new Global Mafia, held at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in Toronto. He is a member of the organizing committee of the proposed Canadian Centre for the Study of Organized Crime at Osgoode Hall Law School. g) In May 1994, Possamai appeared before the Finance Committee of the Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa, to discuss the nature and characteristics of the underground economy. In December 1994, he was an instructor at a special training session for Canadian Government tax investigations probing underground economic activity. h) Possamai has spoken on criminal justice issues to the 1994 Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Organized Crime Conference in Brampton, Ontario, and the Canadian American Law Enforcement Organization in 1994 in Niagara Falls, New York. In June 1993, Possamai presented a paper entitled "The History and Development of Money Laundering: A Canadian Perspective" to Chapter X of the International Association of Law Enforcement Analysts at the Canadian Police College in Ottawa. i) In 1990-91, Possamai acted as Special Consultant on "Evil's Fortune", a television documentary which investigated the financial corruption of former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The documentary, which was broadcast on CBC Television's the 5th estate, Canada's best-known investigative program, won a Canadian Association of Journalists' Award for investigative journalism. Education Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto Bachelor of Applied Arts (JRN), Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto Professional Activities Possamai is a member in good standing of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and has earned the designation of Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).