Petra
Blum
Petra Blum, of Germany, is a freelance writer who works for three large media outlets --Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Blum led the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that discovered money laundering in Vladimir Putin's inner circle and has since been involved in probes into money laundering and other financial crime. After seeing how the CAMS certification took a colleague's illicit finance reporting to the next level, she hopes that certification will also help her better detect money laundering and expose financial crime.