Tom Varvitsiotis
Retired Supervisory Special Agent at U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
- Role
- Senior Financial Investigator at Professional Risk Management
- Location
- Wilmette, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tom Varvitsiotis
Serve as a Senior Financial Investigator at the Drug Enforcement Administration Chicago Field Division focusing on the disruption and dismantlement of significant money laundering organizations. Providing subject matter expertise and analysis related to the tracing of crypto currencies utilized by Money laundering Organizations, resulting in the seizure of millions of cryptocurrency assets. Retired Federal Law Enforcement Agent with twenty-five years of management and investigative experience with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Exceptional record of success in complex investigations, program management, budget oversight, and execution in furtherance of achieving organizational goals. Highly developed skills in initiating financial investigations and intelligence programs in inter-agency and foreign environments. Served as principal DEA advisor to the U.S. Ambassadors for France and West African nations on drug enforcement and policy matters. Served in a senior management role as a member of a five-person disciplinary board, acts as a proposing official for all misconduct and disciplinary matters for an agency with over ten thousand employees, including Special Agents, Intelligence Analysts, Diversion Investigators and Support Personnel in DEA offices throughout the United States and overseas. Targeted Transnational Criminal Organizations, including members of terrorist and violent extremist organizations involved in narcotics distribution and money laundering. Expertise in sophisticated international digital currency investigations.
Experience
Senior Financial Investigator
May 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Senior Financial Investigator, Professional Risk Management, Chicago, Illinois (May 2022 to present)• Senior Financial Investigator assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration Chicago Field Division Financial Enforcement Team. Provides knowledge and expertise in the areas of blockchain technology, crypto wallets, virtual asset service providers (VASPs), open-source intelligence (OSINT), dark web, digital forensics, software development, custody of evidence, and asset forfeiture. Coordinates and provides support to multi-jurisdictional money laundering investigations. Provides expertise on the exploitation of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) information. • Conducts extensive tracing and analysis of cryptocurrency wallets utilized by the Drug cartels to launder millions of dollars’ worth of digital currencies. Provides financial and cryptocurrency guidance to investigators in furtherance their Attorney General Exempt money laundering investigations. Works closely with DEA Domestic and Foreign Offices in support of their money laundering investigations. • Provides investigative support and guidance to DEA Chicago Cyber Enforcement Group in furtherance of their dark web marketplaces investigations and methods employed in furtherance of drug and money laundering activities.
Education
Western Illinois University
Bachelor's degree
1990 — 1992
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