Ghazanfar (Ghaz) Shah is a senior managing director heading K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Disputes practice in the UAE. He has more than 20 years of experience performing complex investigations across the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Europe, and the United States.
Ghaz is an experienced fraud investigator and forensic accountant who assists clients with forensic accounting investigations, financial and forensic reviews, and disputes across multijurisdictional borders. He has lead most of the prominent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act violations by multinationals and/or their distributor/agents within the Middle East, Asia, and Africa region in the last decade.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Ghaz was a senior director at Alvarez & Marsal, leading complex fraud investigations for the healthcare, life sciences, oil and gas, and real estate sectors. Prior to that, Ghaz worked in the forensic investigations division of a Big Four accounting firm in the Middle East where he headed their KSA and Qatar forensic expansion and was co-lead for their Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABAC) practise.
Ghaz is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in the U.S. state of Colorado and a Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA) in the U.K. Ghaz is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).
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