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THE AUTHORS
Rodney T. Stamler is a former assistant commissioner of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), who originated the “Red Flag” fraud
detection and prevention system at the heart of this book in the early
1990s during an engagement with the Auditor General of Canada. Rod,
who holds a law degree, perfected that system as a partner in two inter-
national forensic rms in the 1990s and into the early 2000s. His major
cases included chasing the hidden assets of the late Romanian dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu in the early 1990s; investigating the $1 billion Bre-X
mining scandal in Indonesia, the world’s largest gold mining fraud; and
investigating a massive, multinational procurement fraud at a Fortune 100
multibillion-dollar corpora