Dr Bello is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA, UK) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE, US). He has more than 25 years’ experience in roles related to anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, financial intelligence analysis, forensic accounting, financial investigation, accounting and finance. He was the Head of Forensic Accounting and Financial Investigation at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Deputy Head of Department, Monitoring and Analysis at the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU). He was an Assistant Professor of Forensic Accounting and Auditing at Newcastle Business School, UK, and a former banker with the then Afribank Plc and Stanbic Bank.
Dr Bello holds a PhD in Anti-Money Laundering Compliance from Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK, an MSc in Forensic Accounting from Sheffield Hallam University, UK and a BSc in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University, UK. He also holds a BTech degree in Computer Science from ATBU, Bauchi, a BA in Islamic Sciences and a fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, UK, among other qualifications.
Dr Bello is the author of a book titled ‘Improving Anti-money Laundering Compliance’ published by Palgrave Macmillan, a renowned international publisher in London. (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319432632). He was also a member of an international research team that conducted a study on the “Practical Interventions for Uncovering and Identifying ‘Beneficial Ownership’ as a Mechanism to Recover the Proceeds of Corruption – A Nigerian Case Study”. The research was supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) – Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme
Dr Bello is from Gombe Local Government Area of Gombe State and was born on January 10, 1974. He is married to Hadiza Abdullahi and has two children, Muhammad and Usman.
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