Title: Monitoring Cryptocurrencies exchanges to trace Cybercrime activities

Biography:

Mr. Ishtiaq Ahmed is currently working as Assistant Commissioner of Police in Dhaka Metropolitan Police. He is supervising the Digital Forensic Team & E-fraud Team of Cybercrime Investigation Division & he is religiously practicing and leading cyber patrolling in cyber space to trace out IP criminals in different capacity such as covert operation in cyber space, analyzing digital evidences of different cases under the jurisdiction of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, providing expert opinions to the learned courts in proper channel. As In-Charge of Digital Forensic Lab, he has expertise to examine and analyze the digital evidences of different cases and also supervises other examiners and analyzers of the lab and restricted to maintain the “Standard Operating System” of a digital forensic lab. Terrorism is a global issue and as a member of Counter Terrorism & Transnational Crime Unit of Bangladesh Police, he is actively participating in technical trainings on periodic basis from Interpol, FBI on Counter Terrorism in online. Mr. Ahmed was nominated by UNODC as expert speaker at their training sessions with multi-stakeholders from national & international level. Mr. Ahmed also attended various trainings, workshops, seminar focused on cybercrime & regional assistance to address cybercrime. He obtained sophisticated technical training to identify criminals existing within dark web from Homeland Security, Secret Service, FBI. Mr. Ahmed directly engaged himself with NCA (National Crime Agency) of United Kingdom, Australian Federal Police & Federal Police of Bureau (FBI) regarding cases of online child abusement. He is also collaborating with ICMEC (International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children) for more than a year as a global LEA partner to identify and support child harassment cases. Mr. Ahmed attended series of training on online investigations provided by Antiterrorism Assistance, Bureau of Diplomatic Security U.S. Department of State and got certified as “Trainer”. As a member of national project to counter terrorism, he has been performing as regular trainer for different national and international level audience to convey the soft awareness among different stakeholders against online terrorism & cybercrimes. Mr. Ishtiaq has been awarded the prestigious “President’s Police Medal” from Bangladesh Police for his enormous contribution to tackle the challenges and eradicating threats of cybercrimes.