Charles Monteith

Charles is a senior Anti-Corruption, Compliance, and Asset Recovery legal advisor, previously serving as Head of Case Assurance at the UK’s Serious Fraud Office where he reviewed their corruption and fraud cases. Charles was also a key contributor to the UK Bribery Act, drafting the Attorney General’s Guidelines, as well as contributing to the corporate defence of having adequate procedures to prevent bribery. He also acted as Head of Cases at the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) where he dealt with numerous asset recovery cases involving international banks, global companies and large Middle East conglomerates.

Charles has also acted as Asset Recovery Monitor and Evaluator UK’s Department for International Development and  Foreign Office‘s International anti-corruption and asset recovery programme alongside editing, co-editing and contributing to numerous publications on fraud, anti-money laundering and bribery topics. Following a degree in History and Politics from Durham University and being admitted to practice as a Solicitor, he completed several qualifications across Anti-Corruption, Project Management and audit of ISO 37001 Anti-Bribery management systems.