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EDUCATION:

                              B.A. (History) Adelphi University

                              Garden City, New York

                              J.D. University of Miami School of Law

                              Coral Gables, Florida

MILITARY:     

                             US Army

                                 1st Sqdn, 4th Cavalry, 1st infantry Division - Vietnam

                                 3rd Sqdn 4th Cavalry, 25th Inf. Division -       Cambodia

                                 Combat Infantryman’s Badge; Bronze Star

                                 MOS: Armored Reconnaissance and Infantry

BACKGROUND:

                             Family emigrated to United States from Russia in 1923. Native-born US citizen.

PROFESSIONAL:

                             Attorney, Miami, Florida 1973-1991. Financial Crime Consultant 1992-present.

WORK HISTORY:

                            1973 - 1990: Attorney at Paui, Landy & Beiley, Miami, and Law offices of Kenneth Rijock.  Banking and securities law practice.

                            1980 - 1990: Adviser to narcotics trafficking organizations in United States and Canada.

                            1990 - 1992: Served two years in Federal Prison for RICO and money laundering. Eglin Air Force Base., Florida. 

                                                 Civil Rights restored after sentence by Governor of State of Florida.

                            1992 - 2005: Independent Contractor: assisted US and Canadian law enforcement agencies, and US financial institutions with money laundering and

                                                 financial crime investigations. Financial Crime journalist at Complinet, London, UK.

                            2006 - 2011: Financial Crime Consultant at World-Check, London, UK, Lectured in 100 countries, wrote over 5000 financial crime articles on company

                                                website, and served as expert-in-residence on money laundering.

                           2011 - present : Wrote The Laundry Man, published by Penguin Press UK 5 July, 2012; book published  in Spanish Lavado de Dinero  by Ediciones B, Mexico DF,

                                                     August 2012. Six  other foreign language versions also available. Other languages in preparation.

                                                     Writes Kenneth Rijock’s Financial Crime Blog daily; Financial Crime Consultant, concentrating on Enhanced Due Diligence investigations.

Monte Friesner was born in Europe in 1945 and received, by all accounts, an excellent education. However, he was far from being an innocent citizen and he soon entered into the world of easy money, becoming involved for many years in money laundering, fraud, and various white collar crimes until his global criminal activities came to the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice in 1986.

Even though Mr. Friesner was not a citizen of the USA, the currency he often used was US Currency; therefore, he came under the jurisdiction of the USA. Mr. Friesner in 1992 was apprehended, convicted, and sentenced in the USA for various money laundering and fraud related counts; however, as fate would have it, while incarcerated in the Bureau of Prisons, a massive tumor in his cranial cavity was detected and he was forced to undergo a severe and lengthy operation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Mr. Friesner was asked to assist law enforcement - that of a Financial Crime Analyst using his skills, knowledge, expertise, and contacts for uncovering ‘white collar crime’ for many banks, government organizations, foundations and he often found himself consulting with law enforcement officials. [It often takes a thief to detect a thief.]

In 1996 Mr. Friesner was instrumental in uncovering a “High Yield Investment Scam” being operated in Europe and in less than 6 months all the parties involved in the scam were apprehended and sentenced to terms in prison.

In 2000 - in Canada - Mr. Friesner became involved in the uncovering of various frauds in dealing with high yield programs and various money laundering schemes while lecturing at many law firms in Canada. Monte still continues to this day with his lecturing [essentially in Russia, Canada, Europe, etc.].

In 2001 Mr. Friesner was appointed to the “DUMA” (Congress of Russia) as Special Financial Consultant in structuring various agents for the development of the infrastructure of the Federation of Russia and in detecting of frauds within the country.

From 2001 to the present date, Mr. Friesner has also been involved in uncovering white collar crimes for many well known corporations and implementing KYC and due diligence procedures to protect the assets of these corporations.

Mr. Friesner has essentially covered a wide beat; From Canada to Russia and from Croatia to The Republic of Panama. His major expertise & interest is lecturing and teaching financial institutions and major corporations how to detect money laundering and to prevent financial crime.

From 2008 to the present writes Compliance, KYC, Enhanced Due Diligence Intel,  Financial Crime Blog daily; Financial Crime Analyst, concentrating on Enhanced Due Diligence investigations on the popular www.wantedsa.com web site and also Blog.