Zachary Evans

Zachary is a Manager in the Forensic Accounting team and is based in the Washington DC office. He has over 14 years of experience diving deep into the world of financial crime compliance and investigations, with a recent focus in the areas of cryptocurrency, transaction monitoring, and blockchain tracing.

Prior to joining FRA, Zachary served as Senior Fraud Investigator within the Compliance team at Celsius Network for several years, where he led a team responsible for identifying and mitigating cryptocurrency financial crime typologies, including money laundering through the use of mixing services, darknet marketplaces, and various romance and investment scams. Zachary has extensive experience conducting blockchain tracing using open source and advanced blockchain analysis tools such as Chainalysis, and he holds several certifications in Chainalysis Reactor Certification (CRC), Chainalysis KYT Certification (CKC), and Chainalysis Ethereum Investigations Certification (CEIC).

Zachary also supported the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Asset Forfeiture Administrative Support Services (AFASS) contract for five years. His efforts were focused on assisting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its Criminal Investigative Division’s Money Laundering, Forfeiture, and Bank Fraud Unit (MLFBU) in their complex financial investigations by organizing large sets of financial records into databases to illustrate flow of funds and ultimately identify assets purchased with laundered funds to later be seized.

Early in his professional career, Zachary spent six years working investigations within the risk management operations department at a publicly-traded electronic payment processing firm. Zachary graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology & Criminal Justice.