I train the people who protect India. And I defend those who need protection.
When a case involves digital evidence, financial crime, and criminal defense — most lawyers need to consult three different experts. My background lets me work across all three.
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- AML & capital-markets compliance, 2002–2015
- Digital forensics & cybercrime
- Police faculty since 1995
- Police self-defence training since 1995
Four ways to work with me.
Training and lectures for institutions, a paid written query, workshops for teams, and non-legal travel assistance for foreign visitors.
Training & Lectures
Police academies, Cyber Cells, universities and government bodies: digital evidence, BSA 2023, cyber fraud and self-defence.
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Corporate compliance workshops on the DPDP Act & Rules, AML frameworks and fintech regulation for teams and boards.
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Modern investigations sit at a crossroads: digital evidence, a financial trail and criminal law. Most experts know one of the three. What falls between them is where cases are won and lost.
My practice is weighted toward IT forensics and law enforcement training, with legal/regulatory compliance advisory as a secondary focus, and courtroom litigation as a smaller, ongoing component. Three careers have run in parallel since 1996.
- 01 / TECH1996–now
The evidence
IT since 1996, with a UNIX/Linux background: how apps, servers and logs record a digital footprint — and where it breaks.
- 02 / FIN2002–2015
The money
Legal, regulatory & capital-markets compliance: SEBI/Stock Exchange inspections and filings, KYC and AML/compliance leadership at Credit Suisse, Angel Broking and IL&FS.
- 03 / LAWBar 2015
The court
LL.B. 2011; called to the Bar 2015. Criminal procedure and admissibility, from practice before the Bombay High Court and District Courts.
Four subjects. Taught from the inside.
The subjects I train, lecture and write on — grounded in hands-on work, not theory.
IWhite-collar & cyber-crime law
How economic offences and cybercrime are investigated and tried — and how police and agencies actually work.
- Economic offences and white-collar crime
- Cybercrime: unauthorised access, data exfiltration
- Courtroom experience since 2015
- Training investigators since 1995
IIDigital evidence & forensics
What makes digital evidence stand up in court — and where it breaks.
- Admissibility under Section 63, BSA 2023 (formerly Sec 65B, Evidence Act)
- Evidence authentication and digital-footprint review
- IP-log tracing, hosting-provider identification, takedowns
- Post-incident due-diligence and systemic-failure analysis
IIIAML, PMLA & financial crime
How money is monitored, reported and traced — from someone who ran the function.
- PMLA and related financial statutes
- STR & SAR filings to FIU-IND
- Transaction monitoring for audits and inquiries
- Capital markets, equities, derivatives, MCX/NCDEX; SEBI & exchange compliance
IVDPDP & regulatory compliance
Readiness before the regulator asks — workshops for teams and boards.
- Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 & Rules 2025
- Data-privacy readiness
- Compliance frameworks for financial institutions
- Corporate compliance workshops
I train the people who protect India. And I defend those who need protection.Police Training Centre, Khandala
- 1995
Police self-defence training
2nd Dan Black Belt, Taekwondo (1st Dan, 1995).
- 1996
Digital forensics & cybercrime training
Detective Training School (within MPA, Nashik), Police Training Centre Khandala, Cyber Cells, Crime Branches and District Police HQs across Maharashtra.
- Today
Police faculty & guest lectures
Guest lectures at universities & colleges, and programmes for officials and corporates on digital evidence, financial crime and self-defence.
Built inside global finance. Measured in results.
AML & KYC
Financial-crime compliance frameworks — Motilal Oswal, Credit Suisse.
Global finance advisory
Compliance frameworks for financial models — Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan AM.
Corporate legal operations
SEZ compliance, migration agreements, vendor contracts — Credit Suisse GC Dept.
US bankruptcy
Chapter 7/11 procedural oversight — Applied Data Finance.
Latest writing.
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The AI Agent Was Trying to Help. It Posted 13,000 Internal Screenshots to Public GitHub.
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Before you call.
Short answers to the questions I hear most.
What do you train and speak on?
White-collar and cyber-crime law, digital-evidence admissibility (Section 63, BSA), AML and regulatory compliance (SEBI, stock exchange, capital markets), and the DPDP Act.
What makes your approach different?
When a case involves digital evidence, financial crime, and criminal defense — most lawyers need to consult three different experts. My background lets me work across all three.
Where are you based?
Based in Mumbai. Training at police academies, Cyber Cells, Crime Branches and District Police HQs across Maharashtra; courtroom work (since 2015) at the Bombay High Court and District Courts.
How do I book a training or lecture?
Book online at shoebhakim.com/book-now or call +91 94296 93100.
Training for the people who handle digital evidence and financial crime.
Officers, teams and students — taught by someone who has worked the law, the data and the money.
shoebhakim.com is for training and expertise, not legal advice.