Christopher Urben

Christopher Urben is a Managing Director in Nardello & Co.’s Washington, DC office. Over his 25 years of global investigative experience with the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Chris established an enviable record of leading sophisticated international money laundering and threat finance investigations. Prior to joining the firm, Chris was responsible for developing and leading sensitive global undercover DEA operations that dismantled significant transnational criminal organizations. Through his extensive working relationships with prosecutors in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, he built cases that resulted in either plea agreements or convictions.

After overseas tours in Brussels and Copenhagen, Chris was assigned to the Special Operations Division in the US, where he focused on international threats.  His global experience and network proved valuable when, as Assistant Special Agent In Charge for Europe, Africa, Middle East and the Far East, Chris spearheaded the strategic plan to address the evolving China threat.

Chris built high-level relationships with law enforcement partners throughout the Far East, establishing a system designed to counter and dismantle the global Chinese organized crime and money laundering threat. After helping design a unique law enforcement data analytics targeting model that employed Artificial Intelligence to identify Chinese money laundering organizations, Chris developed targeting networks that infiltrated them.  He spearheaded a source recruitment and global intelligence network within the US and Far East to identify Chinese transnational organized crime leadership and to disrupt their US money laundering operations.