John joined the Basel Institute in August 2024 as a Senior Specialist, Investigations. As a field staff consultant for the Institute’s International Centre for Asset Recovery, John is engaged in Tanzania and Zanzibar, focusing on investigating and prosecuting corruption cases to recover illicit assets.

John is a former senior UK law enforcement officer and detective with 41 years’ experience in crime investigation, working most recently for the UK government in fraud investigations. This includes a 30-year career in UK Policing, concentrating on criminal investigation, as a Detective Constable, Detective Sergeant and Detective Inspector. During this time John became a Senior Investigating Officer specialising in national and transnational serious and organised crime, counter-terrorism and counter fraud investigation.

In this capacity, John successfully operated throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, collaborating with numerous international policing agencies, and was responsible for large scale seizures of class A drug shipments and significant associated asset recoveries.

John later joined the UK’s Department for Business as a Chief Crime Investigator, managing complex business fraud, corrupt company directors and parallel money laundering offences in national and international arenas.