Andrew Rokikki is an Associate Director in Control Risks’ Russia & FSU Business Intelligence practice. Andrew conducts strategic intelligence, product diversion investigations, sanctions risk analysis, business intelligence, and pre- and post-transaction investigations in the Russia/FSU region.
Recent tasks that Andrew has worked on include:
Supporting more than 40 clients in divesting their Russian assets, assessing sanctions risk exposure, and ascertaining their risks of external administration imposition.
Through collaboration with a client’s outside counsel, conducted a sanctions risk and ownership and control assessment into an opaquely structured European holding, most of whose reported shareholders were Russian nationals subject to international blocking sanctions. The assessment provided a detailed account of its management structure and the sanctioned shareholders' current relationship with it.
A product diversion investigation for a North American construction equipment manufacturer supported by external sanctions counsel. The means and routes the corporate’s former and current counterparties and logistics groups used, aided by a US entrepreneur, were found to have violated client-imposed export restrictions and shipped products to sanctioned jurisdictions.
Pre-acquisition sanctions risk analysis of a European cosmetics company with significant operations in Russia for a North American investment fund concerned about the investment target’s relationships with sanctioned banks and operations in comprehensively sanctioned territories.
A business intelligence assignment combining enquiries with oil and gas professionals and public officials in Kazakhstan with a comprehensive public record review of historical allegations and investigations to identify integrity risks at a multinational operated Caspian Sea oilfield.
Prior to joining Control Risks, Andrew worked as an analyst in the due diligence department of a global corporate investigations and risk consulting firm. Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the George Washington University and a Global Sanctions Specialist certificate from the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.
Andrew speaks English and Russian fluently.
