Don Fort
Don Fort is Chief Business Officer at IVIX and former Chief of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation (CI) Division. Having spent nearly 30 years in law enforcement for the federal government, Mr. Fort has deep expertise in financial crimes. At IVIX he now works with tax authorities and law enforcement agencies around the world to develop and implement unique and innovative technology solutions to combat tax non-compliance and other financial crimes.
As Chief of IRS-CI from 2017 to 2020, Don led the sixth largest U.S. law enforcement agency, managing a budget of over $625 million and a worldwide staff of approximately 3,000, including 2,100 special agents in 21 IRS field offices and 11 foreign countries. Don’s time in law enforcement included overseeing investigations of some of the most significant financial crimes involving tax evasion, sanctions evasion, money laundering, bribery, international corruption, bank malfeasance, cyber and cryptocurrency crimes, and terrorist financing. As both Chief and Deputy Chief of IRS-CI, he oversaw numerous high-profile matters such as the college admissions scandal, the takedown of the largest darknet child exploitation website funded by cryptocurrency, two Chinese nationals who were charged with laundering $100 million in the hack of a cryptocurrency exchange, the FIFA worldwide money laundering, structuring, and tax evasion matter; and many more.