Mr. Richard Strike

Richard Served as a Police officer for more than 16 years specialising in financial crime, cyber criminality and virtual currency investigations. Richard is now a Director of GentiumUK Ltd; a consultancy firm that manages, writes and delivers specialist training to investigation agencies domestically and internationally, providing Anti Money Laundering(AML) and Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF) solutions in line with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). He is the UK leading Cryptocurrency trainer for the City of London Police Crime academy, delivering training to all UK law enforcements, National Crime Agency (NCA) and other public sector investigation agencies. Aswell as a Certified Cryptocurrency Training Partner of Chainalysis, delivering Chainalysis Certified training courses to international clients. Richard leads the UK’s The National Police Chief Council (NPCC) framework agreement for providing the secure custody and realisation of all virtual asset seizures by UK law enforcement and public body investigation agencies. Including all the UK Police forces and regions, Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), HMRC and National Crime Agency (NCA). Richard has worked alongside numerous International Cryptocurrency training projects on behalf of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), American Bar Association (ABA), Abler Consulting, Interpol, 5Stones Intelligence, Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Particip GmbH. Creating and establishing virtual currency task forces across a number of jurisdictions.