This episode looks at the everyday reality of a colleague living in a  war zone. Olga Belikova (CFE) from Kiev talks about February 24 and how  her life has changed since then. She also describes her 48 hour, 600 km  trip across Ukraine, from Kiev to Lviv, during the war's second week.  The episode was recorded on Saturday, March 12th.

In a second episode, to be published next Monday, we ask what she thinks the global corruption investigator community in general and CFEs in particular can or should pay attention to in the course of their work post 2/24. As Ukrainian investigators have gathered a particularly valuable set of expertise with sanction busters since 2014, we ask what scams are particularly popular? What conduits and locations are being used more often?

Direct support for this podcast comes from Nemexis GmbH (Berlin, Germany), a corporate crime investigations company specialized on Central and Eastern Europe. 

Your host is Paul Milata, CFE, PhD.

Views expressed by podcast guests are their own and not the view of The Grand Fraud Podcast, Paul Milata or Nemexis GmbH.