Diana Pelaez
Compliance consultant
Experience
Extensive experience in the management of Programs for the Control and Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism. Skill in controlling programs to respond effectively to the challenges and problems that the field of business poses in legal matters, being able to provide appropriate legal solutions that contribute to the efficiency and competitiveness of companies. Design of reports on the behavior of the Asset Laundering and Terrorism Financing variables, aimed at preventing entities from being used to channel money from illicit activities. Evaluation and mitigation of the risks inherent and associated with these behaviors and their impact on the proper commercial and contractual development. Professor at the School of Criminalistics of the Attorney General’s Office in the areas of Money Laundering, Companies and Financial Studies.
Positions held
- INNOVA COMPLIANCE
- Managing Partner – October 2011 to date
Develop, direct, plan and guide the consulting services that the firm offers its clients. Clients in the US, Central and South America, with the purpose of offering appropriate solutions and efficient for each business unit we evaluate. Guide consulting projects in prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism that the firm carries out to its clients in the US, Central and South America.
- Managing Partner – October 2011 to date
- FISCALIA GENERAL DE LA NACION
- Technical Research Corps –CTI– Criminal investigator VII
September 2005 to February 2010
Lawyer specialized in Commercial Law, with extensive experience in the investigation and prosecution of economic and financial crimes, skill in the direction and execution of processes in these areas. Skill in the investigation and assembly of training programs in prevention of money laundering and control of financing of terrorism.
- Technical Research Corps –CTI– Criminal investigator VII
- CTI CORTE SUPREMA DE JUSTICIA
- Judicial Investigator in the Colombian Attorney General’s Office, delegated to the Supreme Court of Justice for the investigation of issues related to the leaking of illicit money to different state agencies. Expert in the typification and adequacy of behaviors from the reports that the Financial Information and Analysis Unit of Colombia directed to the CTI of the Attorney General’s Office.
- CTI CALI / BOGOTA
- Carry out and structure criminal investigations of an informal type for the crimes of Money Laundering. Assets and related, collection of evidence and analysis of modes of operation and new tendencies in the infraction of the law in matters of Money Laundering and Financing of the Terrorism. Design reports on the behavior of the Asset Laundering and Terrorism Financing variable, aimed at preventing entities from being used to channel money from illicit activities. In addition to conducting preliminary interviews to guide the search for those responsible for the crime of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, as well as related crimes.
Academics
- Lawyer – Universidad Santiago de Cali
- Specialist in Commercial Law – Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
- Criminal Investigation Specialist – Escuela de estudios e investigaciones FGN