The FOIA Act from secrecy to transparency: The untold story
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Partner and Senior Consultant · Compliance Officers
Browse published articles ↓Claudio Enrique Pita is Partner and Senior Consultant at Compliance Officers, the compliance and background screening practice of Riveros International Business Corp in Miami, Florida. The practice has served the U.S. market since 2009. He is a security consultant accredited by Colombia’s Superintendencia de Vigilancia y Seguridad Privada (Resolution 20224440036037), a forensic fingerprint examiner, a business administrator with a specialization in finance, and a commercial pilot licensed by Colombia’s Civil Aviation Authority. He began his career as Administrative and Financial Manager at McKinsey & Company in Colombia (1994–1998). He has more than 27 years of experience protecting people, valuables and infrastructure, much of it in executive roles at multinational security companies. He applies that investigative experience to FBI background checks, Live Scan fingerprinting (FBI/FDLE), due diligence on individuals and businesses, AML/KYC compliance programs, FinCEN BOI reporting and FOIA requests for clients in the United States and Latin America. In US Jurisdiction, the group’s publication, he writes about background screening, due diligence and compliance.
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