Practice Drills: Investigating a Simulated Trade Based Money Laundering Case

A practice-first course built around one simulated trade-based money laundering investigation. A bank's transaction monitoring flags the trade finance account of a fictional mid-size Indian exporter, and you run the investigation from that alert to the final report. Every lesson is a drill that produces a working paper: a document reconciliation across invoice, shipping bill, bill of lading and bank realisation; a unit price test against market benchmarks; a shipment verification; an EDPMS match of export proceeds; a counterparty network map across the UAE, Hong Kong and Singapore; a round-tripping trace; a GST export refund test; an evidence timeline; a quantification of the value moved through mispricing; interview notes; and a draft Suspicious Transaction Report for FIU-IND. Along the way you learn the five core TBML typologies, how the Indian trade and foreign exchange framework under FEMA, the RBI Master Directions and PMLA creates both the paper trail and the reporting duties, and where an investigator's judgement ends and a regulator's begins. The course closes with a second, shorter case you work end to end on your own. All companies, people and figures in the case are fictional. Built for senior forensic auditors, chief compliance officers and financial crime investigation professionals.