Corporate Fraud Awareness - Webinar

Is your company prepared to navigate through fraud risks during the turbulent economic conditions?

The events in the past years had a meaningful impact on the global economies and the companies had to adapt to the new environment. Currently, we are facing a global inflationary economy that impacts the operations of many companies. This raises a question on the future of businesses and may create opportunities for ill intention.

In this context, we are planning to deliver our forward-looking webinar to discuss about the risk of fraud and the importance of fraud prevention, including investigations with the latest instruments approachable on the market and within our company.

Join this interactive webinar to hear from a panel of subject matter experts to find out the steps that your organization should be taking now to secure the operations of the company and a strong ethical and transparent working environment.

This webinar explores:

• Highlights of the current economic landscape and the underlying fraud risks along with the benefits of focusing on anti-fraud activities.
• How to handle electronic data during fraud prevention activities as well as during investigations.
• What you need to know about the EU Whistleblowing Directive and upcoming whistleblowing Romanian legislation, how to ensure compliance, the legal requirements relating to anonymous reporting, why whistleblowing is vitally important for your organization.

Speakers

Kenan Burçin Atakan

Partner Financial Advisory - Forensic

Burcin is a Partner within Deloitte Financial Advisory – Forensic Department. Burcin has been in Romania since 2011 and led the developed the Investigation & Dispute practice in Balkan region including Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and South European Countries. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and certified accountant (SMMM). His experience includes hundreds of engagements (i.e., fraud investigation, forensic due diligences etc.). He supported his clients for compliance with the regulations such as AML (Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing), FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and the UK Bribery Act. Burcin was involved in local and international arbitration cases as expert witness and his reports served to arbitrators in several cases.

Irina Chiriac

Assistant Director Financial Advisory – Forensic

Irina Chiriac is a Assistant Director within Deloitte Financial Advisory – Forensic Department.
She has more than 14 years of experience in consultancy services, out of which 9 years in forensics and 5 years in financial audit. As part of forensics team, she led multiple anti-bribery and anti-corruption investigations, fraud investigations, compliance reviews, pre and post-acquisition forensic due diligences, support in litigations, financial audit engagements and risk assessments.

Mihail Bucheru

Assistant Director Financial Advisory - Forensic

Mihail is an Assistant Director within Deloitte Financial Advisory – Forensic Department with hands-on experience in Fraud Investigation, e-Discovery, IT Forensics, Fraud Risk Assessment, Anti Corruption and Anti-Bribery, Compliance and compliance reviews.

Mihail is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and has more than 9 years of experience in the forensic field. He previously worked in the forensic sector in Romania and delivered forensic services under another Big 4 company in Bucharest and under a large energy provider in Romania.

Denisa Simion

Manager Financial Advisory - Forensic

Denisa is a Manager within Deloitte Financial Advisory – Forensic Department being a subject matter expert with over 10 years of experience in the prevention and investigation of frauds, white collar crimes, corporate misconduct as well as designing and delivering training programs.

With extensive experience in international operations, Denisa holds a solid expertise in international cooperation and relations with a particular focus on preventing financial crimes as well as building institutional capacity.

Elton Mata

Manager Financial Advisory - Forensic

Elton is a Manager within Deloitte Financial Advisory – Forensic Department with hands-on experience in Whistleblowing Services, BIS, AML, fraud investigation and integrity due diligence. Elton joined Deloitte Romania in 2019 after one year experience in the Financial Advisory of Deloitte Albania, where he was intensively involved in the Whistleblowing services, conducting thorough interviews and analysis, concerning serious misconducts (fraud, conflict of interest, theft etc.) from various clients located in Australia, such as banks, insurance companies and retail.

Agenda

10:00 - 10:10 - Introduction and general framework

Kenan Burçin Atakan – Partner, Financial Advisory – Forensic  

10:10 - 10. 40 - Fraud Risks and available tools for protecting your company against internal/external potential frauds and the means of handling electronic data during anti-fraud programs and during the investigations (eDiscovery)
The importance of Fraud awareness trainings

Irina Chiriac – Assistant Director, Financial Advisory – Forensic

Mihail Bucheru – Assistant Director, Financial Advisory – Forensic

Denisa Simion – Manager, Financial Advisory – Forensic

10:40 - 10.50 - EU Directive and Romanian Whistleblowing upcoming legislation – Key points
Creating a safe place for whistleblowers – necessary tools for organizations and how to comply with law requirements

Elton Mata – Manager, Financial Advisory – Forensic

10:50 - 11:00 - Conclusions and Q&A

Kenan Burçin Atakan – Partner, Financial Advisory – Forensic