Kevin has more than 15 years’ of experience in various illicit finance roles, including both operational and strategy positions. Starting his illicit finance career in the Serious Organised Crime Agency (now the National Crime Agency) in 2008, Kevin re-joined HMRC in 2010, including managing the largest financial investigation team which delivered multi-million pound confiscations, cash forfeitures and working with HMRC’s Criminal Taxes Unit to deliver a blended asset recovery approach.
Kevin also developed HMRC’s award winning Offender Management Enforcement Team, which merged confiscation enforcement, fugitive recovery and use and enforcement of Serious Crime Prevention Orders.
Kevin’s recent role is overseeing HMRC’s response to priority illicit finance threats, such as tech-enabled, cash-based and trade-based money laundering. Kevin is also a FATF assessor, having worked on the Mutual Evaluation Review of the United Arab Emirates. In 2020, working with The Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units and The Netherlands, Kevin also produced an updated FATF report on trends with trade-based money laundering.
In 2022, Kevin was awarded the Keith Hughes Award for Outstanding Contribution to Excellence and Innovation in Financial Investigation.
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