Masterclass: Preventing the Facilitation of Tax evasion

Oleg Pobereyko currently serves as the Project Leader for the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5) Cyber & Enablers Groups, an operational alliance in the fight against international and transnational tax crime and money laundering, consisting of the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Australian Tax Office (ATO), Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), and Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD). In this role, Mr. Pobereyko overseas the J5 Private Public Partnership and Operational and Intelligence strategy and efforts, delivering impactful tax crime and related money laundering investigations within the cyber and virtual currency spaces to the J5 member countries by crowdsourcing data, innovation, and expertise. Additionally, Mr. Pobereyko also represents IRS-CI in Five Eyes and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) which is an intergovernmental economic organization with 37 member countries established to stimulate economic progress and world trade, where he collaborates with domestic and international law enforcement partners and governmental entities involved in cyber related sanctions matters. Overall, Mr. Pobereyko strives to combat transnational tax crime through increased enforcement collaboration: working together to gather information, sharing intelligence, conducting operations, and expanding the capacity of tax crime enforcement officials.

Mr. Pobereyko began his career with IRS-CI in 2010 as a Special Agent in Los Angeles, California. Since becoming a Special Agent, Mr. Pobereyko has investigated a wide range of criminal offenses and received multiple awards for his investigative and leadership excellence. Mr. Pobereyko has served in multiple leadership positions within the agency, including Supervisory Special Agent for Western Cyber Crime Unit. Mr. Pobereyko holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.

IRS-CI is a premier financial investigative agency and the only agency that can investigate criminal violations of the Internal Revenue Code.  The agency consists of approximately 2,200 law enforcement agents in 20 domestic field offices and 11 international posts.  The agency’s investigative priorities are comprised of three interdependent programs: Legal Source Tax Crimes; Illegal Source Financial Crimes; and Narcotics-Related/Counterterrorism Financial Crimes.  As financial investigators, IRS-CI special agents fill a unique niche in the federal law enforcement community as today’s sophisticated schemes to defraud the government and other victims demand superior investigative abilities to analyze complex financial records and transactions.  IRS-CI’s conviction rate is one of the highest in federal law enforcement.