Case Study

Stopping a money laundering scheme: How we helped a UK CFO protect company finances and reputation

A vendor of many years began paying more than it owed, then asked for the surplus to be forwarded to accounts named nowhere in the contract. The CFO who queried it was one authorized payment away from being the person who moved the money. What we established, why sending the money back would have been the wrong move, and the warning signs any finance team can check unaided.

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Uncovering hidden risks: How our investigation team helped protect an investment firm from a problematic investor

An investment firm had capital on the table and a concern about where it had come from. Declining is expensive and visible; accepting the wrong money is expensive, invisible, and permanent. How three independent lines of inquiry converged on the same answer while the firm still had the choice.

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Protecting business integrity: How our intelligence and investigation team uncovered potential criminal activity in a high-level executive candidate’s past

The candidate for a top-level appointment came recommended by the company’s own senior executives, and there were five business days before the decision had to be made. Five days is short enough that it does not compress the method, it replaces it. How we re-planned around the deadline, and what surfaced in regional press that no screening database indexes.

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