ACFESA - Association of Certified Fraud Examiners South Africa

The South African Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE SA) is a recognised South African professional body, representing and governing fraud examination professionals in South Africa.

The South African Chapter represents the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, which is the world's largest anti-fraud and white-collar crime organisation and premier provider of training and education in these industries. Our members are committed to reducing white-collar crime worldwide and inspiring public confidence and objectivity within the profession.

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Event Details

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Time: 14:00 - 16:00

CPEs: 2

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Agenda

April 9, 2024

Main Schedule

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tracing and Recovery of Fraud losses?
All countries are subject to money laundering and some terrorist financing. The AML is governed by FATF. If Malawi is not FATF members, no foreign bank will do business with them. CFEs are best placed to determine if fraud has taken place. The process of money laundering, including "smurfing," where small deposits are made to avoid reporting limits for the USA. The money can be placed in over 200 different countries with the USA and their Patriot Act being the most difficult and Yemen and North Korea being the easiest. Many Caribbean economies exist purely for foreigners to bring in cases of USD and easily deposit them in bank accounts. For example, the Ukrainian economy was rated as a "red" country - like Russia by Transparency International. The passport control, police, and traffic cops operate on USD. To repatriate proceeds of crime, it is essential to locate the exact countries the money is in and use systems like DocFox to find the true beneficial owner.

Join us for a very exciting session as we unpack the topic and share more valuable examples.
Gerald Saacks (Founder of SimpliPhi)
Gerald Saacks
Gerald Saacks has the following qualifications: Tertiary: 1979-1982- University of Cape Town: B Comm, B Comm (Hons) (Financial Management) Professional: 1983- CA (SA) Other: Fraud symposium- 5 days- Certified Fraud Examiners (USA) Membership in Professional Bodies South African Institute of Chartered Accountants -resigned in protest Hi Zanel, • Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) (USA) Gerald is an FSCA-approved compliance officer and an FIC-approved anti-money laundering officer. Gerald is the founder and MD of SimpliPhi, established to give financial services, especially investment, with a strategic objective to enable them to in-source functions like Forensics, Corporate Governance ERM & Compliance, Internal Audit, and GIPS. His current client base is medium to small investment managers. He also lectures at the ASISA Academy on Ethics, Codes of Conduct (including GIPS) and Investment Regulations. He sits as a technical advisor on the Audit, Risk and Compliance (ARC) Committees. Gerald has over 30 years of experience in external and internal auditing and forensics, specialising in financial institutions. He was Group Head of Internal Audit Southern Life, where he spent 10 years and proposed and headed the highly successful forensic unit. The companies he has worked for included Mazars (articles), Ernst&Whinney (London), Momentum, Futuregrowth and Sygnia. He was also a director of Momentum Collective Investments Ltd and greatly assisted the FSB (now FSCA) in drafting hedge fund regulations in FAIS (IIA) and Regu
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Whistleblowing: “When no one trusts anyone”
As far as fraud prevention is concerned, whistleblowing and speaking out are always recommended. However, when no one trusts anyone anymore, what about this recommendation? What to do? Where to start? Where to blow the whistle? Who dares to take the risk when people are afraid of or distrusts the law enforcements? How about speaking out, when the whole system is corrupt; when Politics takes precedence over techniques, when tools and frameworks protecting whistleblowers are almost non-existent? Actually, there is a lot to be said about whistleblowing, but the presentation will focus more on why no one trust anyone? why people don't blow the whistle? And what should be done?
JAOSOLO Gelase (Director of IGE)
JAOSOLO Gelase
Gelase JAOSOLO, State Inspector, Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE), Vice-President of ACFE Madagascar Chapter Gelase has accumulated 29 years of professional experiences from 1995. As a biologist, he begun and worked for 5 years in an "Experimentation and quality control" department in a renowned aquaculture farm at the UNIMA group. During this period, he accumulated experiences on compliance, standards, discipline and diligence. At the same moment, he began studying Law online. Gelase left the group in 2000 to take training as a Student Treasury Inspector at IMATEP. He obtained his Treasury Inspector diploma in 2002. He was assigned to the Main Treasury of Mahajanga in as Head of the division "Recettes et Collectivités" until the end of 2004 before becoming General Treasurer of Antsohihy at the beginning of 2005. In 2010, he was appointed to the Ministry of Economy and Planning and held various positions - Regional Director, General Director of Development Support, Administrative and Financial Director - until 2019. Currently, Gelase works at the department of the General Directorate of the General State Inspectorate of Madagascar. He holds the position of Inter-Regional Director of Mahajanga since 2019. Then, He is a State Inspector. He has been a CFE since 2020. He is the Vice-President of the ACFE Madagascar chapter. Gelase attended the 16th annual ACFE Africa Conference and Exhibition in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa and participated as a speaker at this conference on 14th of September. The topic was “How to prepare for remote area investigation”. Gelase is thrilled and proud to be part those who fight against fraud.

Speakers

Gerald Saacks (Founder of SimpliPhi)

Gerald Saacks

Founder of SimpliPhi

JAOSOLO Gelase (Director of IGE)

JAOSOLO Gelase

Director of IGE