DIRECTORS
Jerry Ohlson is a Director of London Security Group Ltd. He has wide ranging experience in the management of fraud investigations.
Jerry was a Detective Officer with the City of London Fraud Squad for 20-years, rising in rank to become Head of Fraud from 1994 to 1997. Responsibilities for this position included representing the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) as a fraud expert on:
• Financial Fraud Information Network (FFIN), a multi-agency co-ordinating group under chairmanship of Bank of England and latterly, FSA.
• Steering Group on Financial Fraud, a group formed under auspices of HM Treasury examining a range of counter-fraud measures
• Drugs and Organised Crime Working Group, set up in response to implementation of anti-money laundering measures in EC member states
• Working Party on International, National and Inter-force Crime; a group examining police response and options for change, leading to the formation of the National Crime Squad.
• Working Party on Police and Inland Revenue Co-operation, advising Ministers on potential impact on organised crime by creation of legal gateways for information sharing.
• National Working Group on Fraud, a group co-ordinating the business of Police Fraud Squads nationally.
Jerry has led investigations into three major bank collapses (Johnson Matthey, BCCI and Barings), and has experience of investigating most other types of corporate and investment fraud. He was seconded to the Serious Fraud Office as Senior Police Liaison Officer for 3 years and had responsibility for their operational teams investigating serious, complicated and sensitive fraud cases. A significant part of this work included international investigation, requiring facilitation of working relations with foreign law enforcement and judicial authorities.
Jerry left the Police to join the Financial Services Authority as a Senior Forensic Investigator with responsibility for the conduct of a wide range of criminal and regulatory investigations within the FSA’s Enforcement Division. This work involved close liaison with Police Fraud Squads, SFO and other enforcement agencies. He left the FSA in 2007 to form his own investigation company, Spirit Advisory Services Ltd, before joining with his co-directors to form London Security Group Ltd.
Jerry is a member of the Institute of Professional Investigators.
Richard Cumming is a Director of London Security Group Ltd. He retired from the City of London Police Fraud Squad in 2004 as a Detective Inspector, having spent the previous 13-years working on complex fraud and money laundering cases, including a period of secondment to a sensitive section in the Foreign Office targeting international organised crime.
Richard passed the advanced UK National Police Training Course on investigation of money laundering/asset tracing and was engaged in the most serious money laundering and fraud investigations involving international and organised crime, for example, leading an investigation on the £100 million collapse of a City of London merchant bank which resulted in the Chairman receiving a term of imprisonment of 7-years. He also led investigations and developed intelligence involving the extent to which so called "Russian Organised Crime" had penetrated the UK.
Richard was also engaged in the delivery of anti money-laundering training in the UK and abroad. He was security vetted to the highest level and frequently called on to investigate particularly sensitive cases outside the conventional Fraud Squad remit. For example, the compromise of computer systems involved with UK National Security. He received several commendations from Chief Officers of the City of London Police.
Since his retirement, he has continued in an investigative role in the private sector, forming his own company, Mondrago Investigations Ltd, which has conducted investigations on behalf of several major corporations as well as an extensive private clientele. His work in the private sector has included travel to the USA, Canada and several European countries to conduct enquiries and led to the development of contacts in numerous other parts of the world.
Richard is a Member of the Institute of Professional Investigators and a Member of the International Association of Arson Investigators.
Andy Noad is a Director of London Security Group Ltd. He served 25 years with the City of London Police, retiring in 2005 at the rank of Detective Inspector.
During his service, Andy spent approximately 18 years as a member of the City Police Fraud Squad, first as a detective investigating the first major bank collapse, Johnson Matthey in 1987 and then later, in conjunction with the Serious Fraud Office, investigating the three largest and most complex frauds ever seen, BCCI, Barings and the manipulation of the London Metal Exchange copper market by Sumitomo Corporation of Japan.
He was also responsible for investigating suspected corruption in connection with the procurement of highly sensitive IT systems within the UK police service and was seconded to a sensitive agency of Central Government and was responsible for intelligence gathering operations in respect of serious international financial crime.
In the last three years of his service, Andy was Head of Training for the City of London Police Economic Crime Department, where he managed the development of a new Fraud Investigation course and assisted in the development of training for Financial Investigators in relation to the provisions of the Proceeds of Crime Act. He was also responsible for other training required by Fraud Squad officers as well as training and presentations to the business community in the City of London.
When he retired from the City of London Police, he formed his own company, ASN Associates Ltd, and has conducted investigations on behalf of major corporate and private clients. Such investigations have included fraud in the workplace and misconduct by employees and contractors, suspected arson, and theft. Amongst the work undertaken has been the review of substantial amounts of documentation in relation to company acquisitions and subsequent advice as to the likelihood of successful civil and/or criminal action. He has been retained by a major financial institution to advise on standard operating procedures for investigations staff.
Tony Waters is a Director of London Security Group Limited and served for 30 years in the British Police. The majority of his service was as a supervising Detective on the Fraud Squads of the West Midlands Police and City of London Police where for 10 years he was seconded to the Serious Fraud Office in London on high profile cases such as BCCI, Barings Bank/Nick Leason and many other cases.
In 2000 upon leaving the Police he was appointed a Director (Deputy Managing Director) of a large central London security consultancy (BSB Group) and had responsibility for the Fraud Management Division and Investigations Division where he provided services to many 'blue chip' UK companies, Government Departments, Banks and Law Firms.
On forming his own company, C13 Associates Ltd, he was retained as a civilian consultant to the Serious Fraud Office and had other C13 Associates staff deployed there and at other UK Government Departments (Dept of Health and FCO) as investigators and trainers. Tony is a Consultant to the Government of Malaysia in the field of Law Enforcement training and Fraud Investigation training.
Tony is qualified in law and business and holds a Law Degree LLB (Hons), a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and a Masters in Law (LLM) that was awarded by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) following focused study into the Regulation of Financial Markets, Commercial Fraud, Police Powers and International Trust Law.
He is a Member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), a Business Mentor to the Princes Trust, a Member of the Association of MBA's, a Member of the Association of Lawyers for the Protection of the Financial Interests of the European Community (ALPFIEC), a Member of IPSA (International Pen and Sword Association - former Fraud Squad Officers) and a Member of the International Association of Arson Investigators.
He is the external examiner to the Centre for Hazard and Risk Management at Loughborough University supervising their Masters Programmes in Security Management.
Tony became a Freeman of the City of London in 2000 and is a member of the Royal Commonwealth Club (Whitehall), the National Liberal Club (Whitehall), the Oriental Club Mayfair and the Royal Overseas League (St James).