FIND Director Mariana Gutierrez sits down with Wayamo to speak about open source financial investigations and how NGOs like FIND complement the work done by prosecutors and investigators to highlight criminality and to help bring perpetrators to justice.
Wayamo interviewed Ms. Gutierrez on the sidelines of an August 2025 symposium on international criminal and financial investigations in domestic jurisdictions organised together with the Directorate of Public Prosecutions of Mauritius in Port Louis.
Time stamps:
01:52 How do you approach a financial investigation?
04:42 How does your work interface with law enforcement, prosecutors and judicial processes?
05:31 What are the key considerations and challenges when conducting open source financial investigations?
08:37 Is open-source financial evidence admissible in court in national jurisdictions? Are there best practices?
10:42 How can NGOs complement motivated prosecutors and investigators in national authorities who are willing to do more to disrupt international crimes but are hobbled by resource limitations or other hurdles?
