Compliance Forensic Services Caribbean

Jeanette is the Managing Director of Compliance & Forensic Services Caribbean with over 25 years of experience in investigating illegal activities (e.g. fraud) and over 20 years in AML.

Her professional experience began in 1986 as a law enforcement officer. Later in her career, she was added to the Criminal Investigation Team (Recherche Samenwerkingsteam) as a financial crime investigator. Her main tasks were investigating (tax) fraud, money laundering, organized crime, and drug trafficking. During this time, Jeanette has gained extensive experience in conducting investigations and AML compliance. She has worked closely with the Public Prosecution Office, FIU-Aruba, and financial institutions in the fight against money laundering.

During her career at the Criminal Investigation Team, Jeanette completed her education as a Tax Auditor and transferred to the Tax Audit Service of Aruba. She gained experience in examining financial statements and administration of various types of companies. Its core activity was collecting information to determine whether tax obligations have been met and investigating tax fraud.

Jeanette later switched to the private sector and worked for 10 years at a renowned accounting firm. After two years she was appointed as Managing Director, in which position she co-managed the offices in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. She assisted clients with their AML program, fraud investigations and tax diligence and negotiations with the tax authorities on behalf of clients.

Since 2010 Jeanette has worked as an independent consultant and is primarily responsible for all fraud, forensic and compliance activities. She advises and assists clients in complying with laws and regulations aimed at preventing money laundering, terrorist financing and other illegal activities. Jeanette also assists clients with customer due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and background investigation.

Her specialty is the design and implementation of AML/CFT risk assessments, strategies, compliance and regulatory frameworks for supervised institutions (e.g. financial, trust service providers, MSB’s, pension funds, real estate companies/brokers, accounting firms, insurance companies/brokers, lawyers, notaries, tax advisors, accountants and casinos). Also, she provides tailored AML training sessions to employees, management and board members of supervised institutions and conducts independent testing for compliance (AML audits).

Throughout her career, Jeanette has conducted numerous investigations for the private and public sector in civil or criminal matters that require surveillance, documentation, investigation, or interviews to provide evidence in legal, criminal, or corporate investigations. In addition to her work, she has been teaching short courses on investigation at the Aruba Police Academy for several years and she is a guest lecturer at various local businesses in the field of fraud prevention.

Jeanette is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and a certified Open-Source Intelligence Analyst (OSINT-IACA-1).