Jeffrey Simser

Jeffrey Simser was Canada’s first director of civil forfeiture and served with the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, Canada for over thirty years. He is one of Canada’s leading experts on money laundering and asset forfeiture law.

He holds law degrees from Queen’s University at Kingston and Osgoode Hall Law School. He currently has a law practice in Toronto. Mr Simser is the author of two published books, Canadian Anti-Money laundering Law: The Gaming Sector and Civil Asset Forfeiture in Canada (loose-leaf). He has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles, including a chapter in the recently published Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada (2023). He served twice as an expert witness at the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia (the Cullen Commission) and recently testified before the Standing Committee on Finance to address money laundering issues.

Mr Simser provides advice, training, and support to law enforcement in jurisdictions across Canada and around the world (including South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Philippines, Guatemala, and Kenya). In January and February of 2024, he was the course coordinator for 8 webinars entitled The Lifecycle of Dirty Money, sponsored by VACI, TI Canada and the Anti-Corruption Law Program at Allard Law School.