Criminal Business Law

Graduate in corporate law and public law, Vincent Filhol was deputy prosecutor at the Court of Appeal of Orléans and then deputy prosecutor at the Ministry of Justice.

In 2015, he joined the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office in Paris, one year after its creation.

In 2016, he implemented a new law in France on preventing and fighting corruption.

Since 2019, he has been a seconded magistrate in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He is the head of the French delegation to the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO). He regularly participates in international forums (OECD, UNODC).
He also teaches Criminal Law / Financial Crimes at Paris I University.

After graduating in Law cum laude in 1989 from the University of Rome, he obtained in 1995 a PhD in „Organization and Functioning of Public Administrations”.

He was a contract professor at the University of Viterbo (1998-2001) and lecturer in several courses and master’s degrees.

He authored publications on public finance, banking and financial regulation and supervision, anti-money laundering and anti-corruption.

He joined the Bank of Italy in 1994 and has served in the UIF since 2008. Within the UIF he served in the Regulation and Institutional Relations and in the International Cooperation Divisions. As director at the Analysis and Institutional Relations Department he currently deals with specific topics, including the prevention of corruption and tax crimes, and acts as UIF’s representative in relations with national authorities, including, among others, the National Anticorruption Authority, and the Revenue Agency.

He is also involved in the anti- corruption coordination committee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, established to share experiences and best practices among national authorities in the field of the prevention and suppression of financial crimes.

As a member of Italian Delegations, he takes part regularly in the works of the Financial Action Task Force, the Task Force on Tax Crime (both at the OECD), and the Moneyval (at the Council of Europe). He also represents the FIU Italy at the Egmont Group of the FIUs.

Furthermore, he is involved, as evaluator, in teams for the assessment of the AML/CFT systems and represents the UIF as an expert in conferences and seminars both at international and national level.

Since April 2022, Peter N. Halpern has served as the United States Department of Justice Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) Central Europe Anti-Corruption Resident Legal Advisor. 

From 2018 to 2022, Peter was the OPDAT Resident Legal Advisor for Indonesia. 

Prior to joining OPDAT, Peter was a trial attorney with the DOJ Public Integrity Section in Washington, DC, where he prosecuted public corruption cases across the United States. 

Peter received his undergraduate degree from American University in Washington, DC, and his JD from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. 

Before joining DOJ, Peter served as a law clerk for the Honorable Judge Margaret “Meg” Ryan on the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the Honorable Judge Alison J. Nathan on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Mona Popescu Boulin has a degree in Law from the University of Toulouse 1 Chapter, attended the National School of Magistracy in Bordeaux, the Institute of Political Studies in Rennes and completed master’s studies in European Law at the University of Utrecht, International and Comparative Law at the University of Uppsala and International and American Law at the University of Texas.

She has extensive experience in the French prosecutor’s office, he was a liaison magistrate for Romania and the Republic of Moldova regarding the coordination of the operational actions of the French, Romanian, Moldovan and European police and judicial authorities (EUROJUST, EUROPOL) and from 2021 he is a delegated European prosecutor attached to the Prosecutor’s Office European.