Bob Lindquist
Director of Forensics
Bob Lindquist B. COMM, FCPA, CFE, Director of Forensics at Sequor Law, focuses his practice on providing financial investigative counseling through his strong analytical abilities, intuition, and knowledge of fraud that he gained throughout his 40 years of domestic and international case experience.
Bob’s extensive case experience includes many high-profile investigations on behalf of corporations and governments in the United States, Antigua, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Grenada, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Malawi, Trinidad, Romania, St. Lucia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. He has obtained courtroom experience through expert witness testimony and attendance with Counsel in trials for both sides on over sixty occasions. Also, Bob is the author of Accounting as an Investigative Aid and co-author of two textbooks on forensic accounting and commercial crime.
Prior to joining Sequor Law, Bob fulfilled the role of Senior Partner at multiple firms in Washington, D.C., including Lindquist Forensic Accounting Investigations and Lindquist Avey Macdonald Baskerville, LLC. He was also Senior Managing Director at Citigate Global Intelligence & Security LLC, Principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Regent Emeritus at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Bob was recognized for his professional contributions by his election in 1991 as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario and his election to the Board of Regents for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, based in Austin, Texas. In 1993, he was elected Chairman of the Board.
Favorite Quote:
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” Theodore Parker
Bob Lindquist
Director of Forensics
Education
- Honors, Bachelor of Commerce, University of Windsor, Canada (1968)
- C.A., Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (1991)
- F.E., Certified Fraud Examiner (1989)
- Chairman (1993) of the Board of Regents of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Austin, TX.
Bob Lindquist
Director of Forensics
News/ Notes
- Accounting as an Investigative Aid (co-author), 1995. J. Wiley & Sons in New York.
- The Accounting Handbook of Fraud and Commercial Crime (co-author), 1993. J. Wiley & Sons in New York.
- “The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Hide Stolen Assets Using Legal Structures and What to Do About It” (advisor), November 2011. The World Bank.
Bob Lindquist has conducted many presentations on financial crime some of which include the IBA Conference in Cancun, the International Money Laundering Conference in Montreal, the ABA White Collar Crime Conference in San Francisco, and the Pacific Rim Money Laundering & Financial Crimes Conference in Vancouver. The titles of his presentations need no explanation: “Lack of Ethics and Poor Controls = Corruption”, “The Mindset of Corruption: A Case Study in Greed”, “Detecting Fraud and Non-Compliance”, “What to Expect From Your Forensic Accountant”, “Facts Beyond the Numbers: Forensic Accounting”
In November 2011, The World Bank published “The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Hide Stolen Assets Using Legal Structures and What to Do About It”. Bob Lindquist was an advisor in what the Bank describes as the “Investigators Project” as a source for facts and opinions. Appendix D entitled “Grand Corruption” contains summaries of 10 cases of which two are Bob’s cases: on page 171 “Bruce Rappaport and IHI Debt Settlement” and on page 207 “Piarco International Airport Scandal”. The entire report can be accessed at www.worldbank.org/finance/star_site.
