Peter Smith - International Investigators
Fraud Detectives
Insurance Fraud Investigations
We do background checks to examine the bona fides of suspect fraudulent claimants. Surveillance is used to provide full details of the subjects activities while he is on sick leave. You receive a report corroborated with photo and/or video evidence. The aim is to establish if the claimant is as injured as alleged, or indeed, injured at all. Covert photography, and the expertise to apply it properly, is available.
Computer Fraud
Fraudulent use of computer information, breach of software copyright, theft of computer components, software counterfeiting and software piracy.
Misuse of Privileged Information
Employees misusing company information, or stealing it, for their own gain. Disaffected employees misappropriating, stealing or destroying important information. Industrial espionage, ie. stealing privileged information and offering it for sale to competitors.
Internal Fraud and Pilfering
Falsely accounting for company money, diverting money or assets into private pockets.
Counterfeiting
Manufacturers of high value goods such as jewelry, luxury leather goods, clothes, perfumes, car parts, pharmaceuticals, aircraft spares, are all at serious risk of fraud from unscrupulous illegal manufacturers making second rate imitations. This both damages the reputation of genuine manufacturers and deprives them of their legitimate revenue.
Copyright and Trademarks
investigations into the status of copyright holders to establish if they are genuine commercial traders or venal individuals attempting to capitalize on copyright legislation.
In collaboration with management measures are implemented to determine the culprits, their methods, associates and range of identified and unidentified fraudulent activities. This would be achieved by analysis of employees falling into the target categories, research to narrow down the number of possibilities and covert surveillance to identify those concerned.
At this point management may choose to deal with the situation by investigator to probe further in questioning those concerned to reveal previously identified.
Case Study: Insurance Fraud
A man from the UK claimed to have hurt himself while visiting a well known American company. We used surveillance to establish that the man, now back in England, walked perfectly normally and played with his children. Covert surveillance at his workplace showed no impediment at all.
This evidence was delivered to solicitors representing the man. No more was heard of him.
Case Study: Insurance Fraud
An industrial company in the South-West of England had an employee who had spent over 2 years on sick leave. His doctor consistently confirmed he was unfit for work. Surveillance showed that though he had a slight walking impediment, it did not occur all the time and did not prevent him from leading a full and active life. It also showed that he was driving while disqualified.