This man tracks down crypto criminals for a living. Conversation with OSCE expert Marcin Zarakowkski

Описание: Crypto isn’t the Wild West people think it is.
It’s... stranger.

Almost 50% of crime in England & Wales now happens online, with crypto theft rising fast.
But here’s the twist: losing your crypto isn’t always the end.
This man tracks down crypto criminals for a living.

In this episode of Business As Unusual, I sit down with Marcin Zarakowski: attorney-at-law, Virtual Asset Expert at the OSCE, and founder & CEO of Recoveris, a blockchain intelligence and digital asset recovery firm based in Zug, Switzerland.

Marcin has spent years at the intersection of law, blockchain, and financial crime, helping exchanges, law firms, banks, insurers, and individual victims trace and recover stolen digital assets.

Today, he and his team are building an AI-powered investigation platform to help professionals keep up with increasingly sophisticated crypto crime.

This episode is about technology, yes, but even more about reinvention: growing up in post-Cold War Poland, investing years into a legal career, then moving to Switzerland and starting again in a completely new field.

In this episode of Business as Unusual with Tayfun Bilsel (Founder & CEO of Clinked), we talk about:

00:00 Intro
02.32: How growing up in post–Cold War Poland shaped Marcin’s choices
04:16 Choosing law as the “sensible” career path, and later walking away from it
09:09 Landing in “Crypto Valley” and entering blockchain almost by accident
19:17 Why blockchain’s structure makes both theft easier and tracing possible
22:12 The race between criminals cashing out and investigators trying to freeze assets
27.06: The barrier to adoption of blockchain is theft without recourse. Recoveris is the answer.
31:40 How romance scams, hacked wallets and “too good to be true” platforms drain life savings
39:25 Turning a consulting-heavy investigations business into an AI-first SaaS
42:50 Using large language models to speed up forensic reporting
45:38 Balancing privacy, explainability and court-proof evidence in AI systems
47:10 Letting go of “what will people think?” and taking bigger career risks
52:02 Why fast, thoughtful AI adoption is a key differentiator for entrepreneurs

Connect with Marcin Zarakowski 📩
🌎   / marcin-zarakowski-793a03107  

🔐 Follow Marcin's company Recoveris:   / recoveris  

🌐 Find out more about Recoveris:
https://recoveris.io

Connect with Tayfun Bilsel 📩
🌎   / bilsel  

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