Leading Edge Expert in Corporate Crime Detection and Prevention

Mike Comer is an independent consultant specializing in all aspects of fraud prevention, detection, investigation and recovery. He heads up COBASCO, an international community of fraud and legal specialists, based in London and Houston, USA.

From 1963 to 1971 he served as a Commissioned Officer in HM Customs & Excise Investigation Branch where he successfully handled hundreds of investigations into commercial, revenue, narcotics smuggling, organized crime and other types of complex financial frauds. He investigated some of the first cases of computer crime in Europe. He was commended at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey for his skill in unravelling a multi-million pound banking fraud, and in other civil and criminal courts for his skills as an Investigator.

Headhunted by ESSO Petroleum Company Limited in 1961, he served as Corporate Security Co-ordinator and later as Security Adviser for ESSO Europe Inc. In these posts he directed the protection program for massive assets including refineries, extensive computer and communications networks, a large shipping fleet, thousands of retail outlets and for more than 30,000 people.

Since 1979, operating as an independent specialist, he has been retained by hundreds of blue chip clients on a wide range of assignments and investigated many spectacular and high profile frauds in Europe, Asia and the United States of America. He was also appointed a director of two public companies to advise on their control strategy.

Highly Appraised Speaker at International Fraud Conferences

Mike Comer lectures in Europe, Asia, South Africa, South America and the United States to professional audiences including Chartered and Certified Accountants, Internal Auditors, American Society for Industrial Security, Institute of Bankers, Bank Administration Institute, London and City University Business Schools, Harvard Advanced Management Groups and to the legal profession and government departments. He trained the Anti-Corruption Bureau and Customs Departments for two Asian countries. He worked directly with Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica, in successfully restructuring the country's Customs & Excise department. Fifteen years later, Mike Comer's action plans are still working successfully.

Mike Comer served as Visiting Professor at Cranfield Institute of Technology and is currently an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Scarman Centre, University of Leicester. He is past President of the European Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and of the American Society of Industrial Security's Committee on Fraud. He is a member of MENSA.

Specialist Author & Editor

Mike Comer has written six books on fraud which have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, Thai and Chinese. "Corporate Fraud III" was released by Gower Publications Ltd in August 1997 and has become a best seller. In 2003 Gower published "Investigating Corporate Fraud" and a major new book called "Deception at Work", which deals with lies in all their forms and how they can be resolved. He was the founder and managing editor for eight years of the "Computer Fraud and Security Bulletin" and the "Corporate Crime Bulletin" that monitor thousands of information sources world-wide, including the Internet, and present a digest for senior managers and their legal and control advisers.