Adnan Tahir is a blockchain investigator and anti-money-laundering specialist based in Toronto, Canada. He founded ComplyChain in 2016, leads its investigations and reviews and signs its tracing reports.
Adnan Tahir
Founder and Managing Director, ComplyChain Solutions
Background
Adnan Tahir founded ComplyChain Solutions in June 2016 and leads its blockchain investigations and compliance advisory work. He reviews and signs the firm’s tracing reports, and he is available to give expert testimony on them.
From 2018 to 2022, Adnan led crypto financial-crime investigations at two major cryptocurrency exchanges. At the second he was a Senior Investigator in the Financial Intelligence Unit and managed a team of investigators. In both roles he worked with U.S., Canadian and international law-enforcement agencies on fraud, scam and money-laundering cases.
Before crypto, he worked in AML and KYC roles at a Canadian investment dealer and a global bank, and as an AML analyst, from 2015 to 2018.
Credentials
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Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator (CCI), 2019
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Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP), 2018
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Chainalysis Reactor Certification (CRC), 2022
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Research contributor, ACAMS white paper “Virtual Assets: Calibrating the Compass of Suspicion” (2019)
Tools
Chainalysis Reactor, MetaSleuth, QLUE, Breadcrumbs, CoinForensics (previously CipherTrace), plus screening and research databases.
Languages
English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and conversational Spanish.