Jeffrey Simser served as a lawyer and legal director at the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, Canada for over thirty years. He is one of Canada’s leading experts on asset forfeiture and money laundering law. He holds law degrees from Queens University at Kingston and Osgoode Hall Law School.
Mr. Simser is the author of two published books, Civil Asset Forfeiture in Canada (loose-leaf) and Canadian Anti-Money laundering Law: the Gaming Sector. He is currently working with co-authors on another book, Money Laundering in Canada. He has published dozens of articles. Mr. Simser was twice qualified as an expert witness at the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia (the Cullen Commission).
Mr. Simser has provided training and support to law enforcement and to jurisdictions across Canada and around the world (including the Philippines, Guatemala and Kenya).
Find Some of Jeffrey’s latest Articles below:
- Reporting entities may want to take notice of a recent UK case. In Canada, under the PCMLTFA, it is an offence to disclose the existence of an STR with an intent to prejudice a criminal investigation. The UK Proceeds of Crime Act provisions against tipping off are slightly different. One more piece of background: unlike Canada, lawyers in the UK are effectively reporting entities.
- From the book “The Financial War on Crime and Terrorism”
- International Financial Crimes Investigators Conference, Toronto Police Service
- UQAM, Montreal
- Dalhousie Law School
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