Ash Klass, a Director at FRA, is a qualified accountant with over 12 years of experience in forensic accounting, bribery and corruption, risk, compliance, asset tracing, disgorgement and ability-to-pay calculations. Ash has been involved in a wide range of assignments in the aerospace, banking, trading, oil and gas, engineering, manufacturing, software, medical supplies industries across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific.
Ash has considerable experience in carrying out disgorgement, gain calculations, accounting analysis and ability-to-pay studies in the context of investigations carried out by global enforcement agencies. Ash is currently leading a team undertaking a penalty calculation in the context of Brazilian enforcement agencies investigations into a European multinational firm using illicit payments to win supply contracts in Latin America. He supported Switzerland-based commodities trading firm Gunvor SA and its external counsel in a complex profit calculation that led to a $660mn fine and profit forfeiture, agreed with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Swiss Office of the Attorney General.
Ash has also carried out forensic accounting and financial analysis for profit disgorgement calculations for settlements with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), French Parquet National Financier (PNF), UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ...
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