Tobias Kremp: Blockchain Analyst and Independent Author
Investigation without an understanding of the system is damage administration.
Tobias Kremp is a blockchain analyst at the financial competence centre of a Hessian police headquarters. As an independent author (Article 5 of the German Basic Law), he runs the public-awareness project digitale-enteignung.de and publishes on LinkedIn. His content reflects his personal assessment and does not constitute an official statement by any authority.
Background
Thirteen years in the German police service, from general patrol duty through operational command to strategic communication, combined with close to a decade of working knowledge of the crypto ecosystem. Today a blockchain analyst and independent author. The work sits at the intersection of operational forensics and strategic analysis of criminal phenomena: cluster analysis and OSINT, the freezing of crypto-assets at centralised exchanges, and the requirements for robust on-chain documentation. I do not offer recovery services to victims; anyone promising such services against advance payment is usually running a scam.
Certified as a Chainalysis Certified Investigator (CCI) and a Chainalysis Certified Compliance Analyst (CCCA). The Harvard Business Review programme Lead with Technology and AI adds strategic AI competence, from digital transformation leadership to AI risk management. Additional training in resilience and stress management sharpens awareness of the psychological mechanisms on both the offender and the victim side: the shame that delays a criminal complaint, and the social engineering techniques fraud schemes rely on.
Publishing
As an independent author I research, analyse and write about the systematics of digital financial crime. The focus is the system behind the individual case, written for editors and trade media looking for well-founded, source-based analysis.
I publish the monthly newsletter MANIPULIERT. on LinkedIn; every issue is archived on digitale-enteignung.de. The short-form format RAW. is added when a current development calls for it. In September 2026 the reference work Typologien digitaler Finanzkriminalität was published: 131 entries in five chapters, all freely available in full in the glossary. For people over 60 and their families, the large-print guide Hey Omi, ich bin’s! was published on 23 October 2026. Guest contributions have appeared in trade media.
Why I write
Knowledge reaches the top of an organisation and is devalued there anyway, because rank feels like judgement from the inside. Morrison and Milliken named the pattern organisational silence in 2000. Anyone who has understood that mechanism also understands why phenomena such as industrial investment fraud could grow unnoticed for years, although the knowledge about them was long available. Publishing makes that knowledge available where it is needed.
Areas of focus
Pig butchering and Sha Zhu Pan · Chinese Money Laundering Networks (CMLN) · cybertrading fraud · APP fraud · scam compounds in Southeast Asia · crypto money laundering infrastructure · on-chain forensics and cluster analysis · OSINT · recovery scams · victimology of digital dispossession.
Working principles
All content is written in a private capacity under Article 5 of the German Basic Law and rests exclusively on publicly accessible primary sources: FATF, Europol, INTERPOL, UNODC, the German BKA and FIU, DOJ and OFAC documents, blockchain analytics reports and documented cases. Nothing originates from case files. None of it constitutes an official statement by any authority. I write guest articles for specialist media only. Interviews, quotes on current cases, talks and consulting are not part of what I offer, and I provide no information on ongoing proceedings or official matters.
Where to go next
English abstracts of the analyses · Glossary of digital financial crime · Press and editorial enquiries