Anastasia Nazarova, CFE
Anastasia Nazarova, CFE, is a corporate auditor at Chevron Products UK Limited in London. She’s the 2020 ACFE Hubbard Award recipient for the best Fraud Magazine article in 2019, “Dark world of oil theft and fraud,” in the July/August issue. Contact her at anastasia_wish@yahoo.com.
Dark world of oil theft and fraud
Oil theft and fraud affects everybody — not just those in far-away nations — because it enables everything from terrorist attacks to human trafficking. The author outlines thieves’ techniques and what countries are doing to battle this multibillion-dollar scourge.
Written By: Anastasia Nazarova, CFE
Keeping ships afloat: Maritime fraud affects us all
On July 5, 2011, the tanker ship, Brillante Virtuoso, which was carrying 140,000 metric tons of fuel oil, was drifting within Yemeni waters. Later in the day, a small boat with seven armed men approached the vessel. The men, who claimed to be a “security team” to escort the tanker through the Gulf of Aden from the Arabian Sea, hijacked the ship and demanded that the vessel proceed to Somalia.
Written By: Anastasia Nazarova, CFE
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