Carlos Orozco

Supervisory Special Agent

Office of Cyber & Forensic Services, IRS Criminal Investigation

 
 
 

Carlos Orozco is a Supervisory Special Agent and Program Manager in the Office of Cyber and Forensic Services within IRS - Criminal Investigation. Mr. Orozco has played an instrumental role in building and growing IRS:CI’s Cyber Crime section. Since joining the section in 2017, he has helped develop and implement IRS:CI's global cybercrime strategy and virtual asset investigations program. In other roles, Mr. Orozco has gained firsthand experience overseeing and conducting complex, multi-jurisdiction financial investigations including those involving the illicit uses of virtual assets. As the unit chief over the Washington DC based Cyber Crimes Unit (IRS:CI’s investigative unit into the illicit uses of virtual assets) he oversaw dozens of sophisticated and complex global money laundering investigations involving the illicit uses of virtual assets, including the 2016 theft of approximately 120,000 BTC from a virtual currency exchange which led to the seizure of over 94,000 BTC, valued at approximately $3.6 billion. As an original member of the Global Illicit Financial Team (an IRS-CI led task force focused on investigating international third party money launderers), he was a case agent on the investigation of Liberty Reserve, formerly an online virtual currency company based in Costa Rica that was charged with laundering over $6 billion in criminal proceeds through their platform. At the time it was the largest money laundering indictment in history.