Björn Wahlström

Areas of Expertise: Crypto tracing | Business intelligence | Asset tracing | Crypto regulation | Investigations

Current Consulting Group is an independent consulting firm, specializing in operational and organizational resilience and risk mitigation, and with a focus on high-risk industries. We are headquartered in Hong Kong, with perational offices in Shanghai and Shenzhen. We offer tangible advice and hands-on support, assisting our clients with actual implementation of our recommendations.

We take pride in serving high-risk industries and clients with high tolerance for risk. We’ve executed projects and asset tracing for some of the worlds largest exchanges and crypto investors. We operate with a high degree of confidentiality. We do accept work for any government or law enforcement agencies.

Current Consulting Group regularly conducts complex investigations for law firms, corporations, exchanges, and investors. Using cryptocurrency has a high degree of anonymity. When cybercriminals deal in cryptocurrency, they deploy tools such as crypto mixers to enhance user privacy and facilitates anonymous transactions by jumbling up data on the origin, destination and parties involved in a crypto transaction. Current Consulting Group conducts comprehensive investigations across on-chain and off-chain analysis that helps our client to identify financial flows and recover assets. We can trace virtual assets to real life assets.

Our team can help design, implement, and assess your compliance program and anti-money laundering (AML) program. AML for digital assets refers to the laws, rules, and policies that prevent criminals from turning unlawfully obtained cryptocurrency into fiat currency. Cryptocurrency has a higher AML risk with the concern of high degree of anonymity and support of cross-border transaction. The regulatory bodies enact stringent anti-money laundering (AML) legislation to prevent money laundering via Virtual Assets Service Providers (VASPs), including cryptocurrency exchanges, custodian services, DeFi protocols, and NFT marketplaces.

Other areas we are able to support with is due diligence, security assessments, and regulatory advisory. In addition, our investigators are members in internationally recognized Investigation & security organizations, and you if require investigative services in any region globally, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will put you in touch with our network.

BJÖRN WAHLSTRÖM is the CEO of Current consulting Group. He is a risk management and asset recovery specialist and has extensive experience in due diligence and corporate investigations on and off the blockchain. He has personally led complex investigations in China as well as in Europe and the U.S.

Björn has worked with cryptocurrencies since 2013 and has a broad network in the space. His clients include some of the world’s largest exchanges, crypto adopters, and investors. Björn also supports law firms with tracking down stolen crypto assets and provided litigation support so both regional and global law firms. Björn has helped corporate clients build effective measures of governance and due diligence in crypto, from address screening to contracting and enforcement, combining traditional compliance measures with a strong command of the new playing field of blockchain technology.