Chris Mathers

Chris Mathers provides crime and risk consulting services to selected domestic and international clients, specializing in fraud, money laundering, terrorism and organized crime issues. Mathers concluded an offshore asset tracing assignment on behalf of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme in Iraq.

Mathers spent most of his adult life working undercover for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, US Drug Enforcement Administration, and the US Customs Service where he has posed as a gangster, a drug trafficker, and a money launderer.

Mathers retired after a 20-year career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police where he was the senior undercover operator at the RCMP Proceeds of Crime Section where he established and operated a number of “storefront” money laundering businesses in Canada and the US, targeting Colombian, Russian and Asian organized crime groups. Mathers personally infiltrated criminal organizations in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe.

A popular media commentator and speaker, Mathers has served as a consultant on several feature films and documentaries relating to organized crime, espionage, and money laundering. He has appeared on television and radio interviews on CNN, PBS, MSNBC, all of the Canadian national news networks as well as media outlets in Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the Caribbean. Mathers is also the host of The Egyptian Job, on the National Geographic Channel.