We offer fraud investigations to investigate cases of white-collar crime and fraud. Depending on the kind and area of investigation we work with a team of interdisciplinary experts ranging from Forensic Accountants and Taxadvisors to IT experts and Criminologists. We detect signs of fraud in your financial accounts, determine the losses caused by fraudulous actions or a neglect of obligations , audit your internal controls and conduct forensic interviews. We also offer expert opinions to support your claims in a court of justice or to file your insurance claims.

We use special forensic interview techniques as well as special analytic software to make our investigations more effective and efficient and to deliver the best results for our clients.

We would like to help you with any of your fraud concerns, so please contact us!

In case your company has become a victim of fraud or white-collar crime of if you are one of the few companies investing in prevention we can help you setting up preventive controls and improving your internal controls.

We also offer support for:

• Defining target processes and specifications and implementing guidelines to establish these
• Planning and implementation of internal audit procedures and guidelines
• Implementation and improvement of your internal controls
• Implementation and improvement of your risk management
• Risk assessments and process analysis
• Identification and remediatin of risks and weak controls
• Auditing of measures and controls

We offer a systematic and targeted improvement of your internal controls, your risk management and your control and monitoring processes.

We would like to help, please contact us!

According to a recent study from KPMG a third of all German companies suffered from fraud and white-collar crime in the past two years. Concerning medium and large enterprises every second company suffered from fraud and white-collar crime.

The damage caused by fraud was estimated to be about 80 billion Euros in 2014. Other studies show similar results: a study published in 2015 by Bitkom estimated the damage to be at least 51 billion Euros.

The most frequent offenses were embezzlement, theft, fraud and infidelity. According to Bitkom ony 20% of all fraud is reported to public authorities. Concerning corruption and bribary the estimated number of unreported cases is about 95% according to Transparency International.

The majority of fraudsters are employees of the very company they are defrauding. In most cases implementing preventive measure to avoid fraud would have been less expensive than the damages caused by the fraudsters and the cost of investigation. But according to the studies most companies are willing to invest money in prevention and internal controls.

A few examples of fraudulous actions from our recent investigations:

• Theft and Embezzlement
• Fraud and infidelity
• Kickback payments
• Collaboration of internal exployees and outsiders
• Bribary and Corruption
• Manipultion of data, data theft, destruction of important data
• Cybersabotage and -espionage
• Manipulation of Financial Statements and Reporting
• Forgery of documents
• Economic subsidy fraud
• Tax fraud
• Money laundering
• Violation of antitrust laws
• Distortion of competition e.g. using espionage and eavesdroping

The consequences for companies being a victim of white-collar crime and fraud are severe. Besides the financial damage that can severely threaten a companies existence it also oftentimes suffers from bad reputational damages. The financial consequences from a reputational damage are hard to estimate and can cause the company to fail in the long run. Therefore a fast and active intervention is neccessary to minimize and contain the damage. If severe reputational damages are likely, a good emergency plan and a fast crisis management can prevent longterm damages to the reputation

If you suspect fraud or white-collar crime in your company, act immediately! We can help you by investigating the case and help miminzing the damages. Please contact us!

Background research & Intelligence

We offer background research on companies and persons and their (cross-)ownership. This way you can easily recognize who is profiting from orders to a certain supplier.

You will receive a detailed report and if requested also our evaluation of a person's or company's integrity.

Business Partner Screening

A Business Partner Screening of your actual or future suppliers and business partners can minimize the risks for your company e.g. by uncovering relations and (cross-)ownerships unknown to you.

Pre-Employment Screening

A Pre-Employment Screening can oftentimes already give hints on the integrity of a future employee or manager that could save your company from possible future damages that might have been caused by that person later on.

OSInt / Open Source Intelligence

Besides publicly available data from company and trade registers we also use information from commercial and credit agencies as well as information from social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing, Twitter etc.

Special Research

We also offer special research like research for trademarks and patents, internet domains etc.

We can help you. Please contact us!