Tobias Kremp: Blockchain Analyst and Independent Author

Investigation without an understanding of the system is damage administration.

Background

Thirteen years in the German police service, from 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: wallet identification through cluster analysis and OSINT, asset recovery at centralised exchanges, and court-proof on-chain investigation reports.

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. Training as a certified resilience trainer sharpens the view of the psychological mechanisms at work on both sides: 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 a grounded practitioner perspective.

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. Guest contributions have appeared in the trade magazine RedFlag AML and at BANKINGCLUB.

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 is the route around the chain of command.

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.

Where to go next

English abstracts of the analyses · Glossary of digital financial crime · Press and editorial enquiries