What We Do
Financial and business network analysis
The GTAS team has a unique and powerful track record of support in assisting DEA, DOJ, State, Treasury and other government agencies in identifying, analyzing, and targeting the illicit financial and business networks of top-tier threats, ranging from drug cartels and terrorist groups to WMD proliferators and government adversaries. All members of the team are highly trained in network analysis, operations research, and have direct Counter Threat Finance (CTF) and/or Counter Narco-Terror (CNT) operations experience. They are acknowledged global thought leaders and practitioners in their respective areas of expertise and experience.
Identifying and Tracing Assets
GTAS team members have one of the best-demonstrated track records of asset identification and track and trace operations in the U.S. government. In support of DEA investigations, we have helped uncover multi-billion dollar money laundering schemes spanning the globe and helped the USG pursue the assets of the perpetrators. Several GTAS team members were key personnel involved in the DEA and FBI investigations into the laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars per years by Lebanese Hezbollah via the purchase of used cars in the US and Europe and textiles in China and SE Asia (for sale in the Colon and Curacao Free Trade Zones). Other team members are global authorities on Iranian and North Korea sanctions evasion schemes and have helped the US Government pursue banks and bankers involved in these schemes globally and identify assets for forfeiture.
Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Investigative support
GTAS members spearheaded the identification and targeting of the Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese Canadian Bank (LCB) under Section 311 of the USA Patriot Act, and the exploitation of related intelligence. GTAS team members also played a critical role in the $483 million asset forfeiture action against LCB and associated entities in the Southern District of New York in December 2012 and supported the $150 million extra-territorial forfeiture of Hezbollah related funds at Bank Libano Francaise in August 2012.
GTAS has been selected as a subcontractor to 5 Stones Intelligence to provide investigative services and legal support to the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture Investigative Support Services (AFISS) contract. Learn more and submit your resume for consideration here.
strategic support to law enforcement and prosecutorial preparedness
GTAS brings together the most accomplished team of CTF/CNT strategists, analysts, and operators ever assembled. The team combines decades of collective and well-distributed NSC, State, Treasury, DOJ, and US intelligence community CTF/CNT strategic and operational experience including sensitive law enforcement and intelligence operations against terrorists and organized crime, racketeering and other criminal prosecutions, asset forfeiture and anti-money laundering investigations and trials—as well as extensive private sector experience and other specialized knowledge of financial systems, regulation, and global financial and corporate operations.
Private sector Experience
The GTAS team also has demonstrated private sector and international organizational knowledge and experience—including advising several of the world’s leading banks, hedge funds, and international financial institutions on legal and regulatory compliance, strategy, and operations.