Josh Fruth’s Bio

Joshua Fruth is the Chief Strategy Officer at Section 2 Financial Intelligence Solutions. Josh’s experience as a US Army Officer, Law Enforcement Officer, Federal Task Force Embed, Federal Contractor, & Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Director has afforded him the unique opportunity of having participated in a wide range of public & private sector investigations, intelligence, and special operations focused on financial crimes and their predicate offenses.

Josh is an AML/CTF practitioner who has deployed globally with a functional expertise in disrupting: the illicit revenue generation; money laundering; funds access mechanisms; typologies; nodes; and systems used by bad actors, malign organizations, transregional, and transnational hybrid threat networks.  Josh has a unique perspective regarding financial crime, having personally and physically interdicted many of the illicit activities that precede the need to launder funds in the first place.   His career caseload has included violent crime, terrorism, sex crimes, organized trafficking of persons/weapons/narcotics/counterfeit goods/minerals; white-collar crime, sanctions evasion, counterintelligence, and corruption.

Josh’s expertise is building and tuning AML detection models to detect and alert for terrorist organizations, criminal syndicates, and sanctions evasion in banking; improving risk coverage while reducing false positives. Josh’s passion is AML risk, detection, investigation management, training, and auditing; teaching AML programs Enterprise-wide strategies to combat the money laundering practices of cartels, corrupt regimes, and terrorists. 

Josh is a published contributor, trainer, & keynote speaker who has been featured by Reuters, Fox News, ACAMS, AIBA, ACSS, The Jordan Harbinger Show, FICO, NoMoneyLaundering.com, and Sanctions Alert. He’s a graduate of the University of Akron, the Ohio Police Academy, the Fort Benning School of Infantry, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence, and the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. Fruth has completed both the U.S. Department of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Analyst Course and is a Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator (CCI).