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Annemari Krugel, CFE
Head of Forensics
BDO Advisory Services
Johannesburg, South Africa
Annemari Krugel, CFE, is a director in the forensic services department at BDO and leads a team that provides comprehensive, integrated forensic services, including fraud investigations, anti-corruption compliance, forensic technology services and financial reporting disputes. Before joining BDO, Krugel held various senior positions as director and forensic consultant.
Krugel started her career in the South African Department of Justice in 1984. After gaining experience as a senior prosecutor and magistrate, she joined a labor law practice. Krugel collaborated with the South African Police Service on several high-profile projects in South Africa that successfully exposed and prosecuted corruption, fraud, statutory and other related offenses. She also presided over cases that involved the misuse or misappropriation of billions of rands and has more than 37 years of experience in criminal justice, forensic investigations and prosecutions.
Krugel has been appointed to the South African Chapter of the ACFE (ACFE SA) Board of Directors as a nonexecutive legal director and as the vice president of the ACFE SA. She was invited to speak about whistleblowing in South Africa at the 39th International Symposium on Economic Crime at the University of Cambridge in September 2022 and was a 2024 featured expert on investigations and white-collar crime in Financier Worldwide.