The growing complexity of organisations, the ever-increasing speed of modern international commerce and digital technology, outdated and ineffective internal controls linked to a history of inattention, increasingly transient employees and an acceptance of some level of commercial crime as the 'cost of doing business', have combined together to provide a massive opportunity for criminals to engage in commercial crime.
Apart from the obvious significant economic losses to companies, there will often be collateral damage through loss of reputation, decreased staff motivation, and declining business relations.
Commercial crimes against companies are increasing and becoming more complex each year. Some are readily identified by those who have experienced them before; others are identified when it is too late and the damage done. Commercial criminality can also manifest itself in many guises, including company partners, employees, suppliers, clients, penetration by commercial alliances or rivals, and criminal networks.
As a consequence, many established companies have suffered from commercial crime both within their organisations and externally. While there are clearly many valuable lessons that could be learnt, the increasing scale of the problem suggests that this does not happen in reality. To say commercial or 'white collar' crime is a 'challenge' for organisations is therefore something of an understatement.
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We work together with corporate clients to:
- Identify where assets are being stolen, identify and gain evidence against offenders and recover money.
- Identify where fraud has been committed, gain evidence against offenders and recover money and other assets
- Identify evidence of money laundering by staff or company clients.
- Recover the proceeds of crime, including tracing high value assets that have been deliberately concealed in most parts of the world, using a variety of innovative techniques.
- Tackle supply chain crime through an intelligence-led approach and develop innovative solutions in partnership with companies.
- Tackle IP and counterfeiting crimes.
* theft of assets
* fraud
* money laundering
* asset recovery
* supply chains
* intellectual property & counterfeiting |