Nick Carlsen
Senior Investigator
Nick Carlsen is a Senior Investigator on the Global Investigations team at TRM, where he specializes in complex investigations involving mixing services.
Prior to joining TRM, Nick spent 12 years as an intelligence analyst at the FBI. While at the FBI, Nick played a key role initiating and executing the US government's largest investigations and disruptions of North Korea's trade-based money laundering networks. These cases resulted in the indictments of dozens of North Korean agents, the first-ever extradition of a North Korean national to the United States, the seizure of tens of millions of dollars in illicit proceeds, and pioneering case law on the use of the USA Patriot Act to obtain international financial records.
Nick is the recipient of two FBI Director's Awards (2013 and 2017), the FBI's highest award for investigative excellence. He is also the recipient of two FINCEN Director's Awards (2018 and 2020), and two National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director's Awards (both awarded in 2016).
