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Do you suspect fraudulent activity occurring within your organisation? Global Investigations provides professional workplace fraud investigation services to uncover deception and corruption. Our expert private investigators specialise in gathering evidence using legal methods.
Contact one of our world-renowned private investigators using the form below.
Employee fraud can be an expensive liability. Workplace fraud can be committed by anyone in any department, but it’s more common in senior positions or those employed in the accounting or finance department.
There are many types of workplace fraud. Most common fraud schemes fall into the following categories:
The ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners) and other studies have determined the following statistics about the most common offenders:
Our clients typically undertake occupancy and residency investigations for identification or litigation purposes. However, these checks can also serve as a deterrent or provide valuable information for future use.
Workplace fraud investigations may be conducted when there are suspicions of:
Stealing company funds, assets, inventory or data.
Overbilling, kickbacks, shell companies.
Falsified or inflated reimbursement claims.
Fake employees, doctored hours, misused benefits.
Stealing trade secrets, product designs or R&D.
Employees taking inappropriate payments.
Essentially any situation where an employee, vendor or other insider is illegally enriching themselves through deceit or abuse of position at the company’s expense. Our professional investigators can uncover the truth and provide the evidence needed to support internal investigations, insurance claims and potential criminal prosecution.
Our expert private detectives utilise legal, ethical techniques to uncover the facts. Investigations typically involve a combination of:
Analysing accounts, payments, invoices, inventory for anomalies.
Physical or digital monitoring of suspects and activities.
Looking into records, databases for red flags.
Speaking with colleagues to obtain leads.
Recovering deleted files, emails, activity logs.
Posing as corrupt parties to directly engage suspects.
With decades of experience investigating white collar crimes, our skilled investigators include forensic accountants, financial analysts, former law enforcement, and IT specialists. We have seen every trick in the book.
As a trusted investigations firm, Global has access to resources and databases that even corporate security teams may lack. We have contacts across industries and know where to dig deeper than internal audit alone is capable of.
Our discretion and objectivity also means employees may be more willing to anonymously leak information to our undercover investigators than company management. We piece together the puzzle.
Employees stealing company funds through expense fraud, payroll schemes, skimming revenues, and more.
Vendors overbilling, kickback schemes, shell companies to defraud.
Employees stealing and selling trade secrets, product designs, R&D, customer data.
Fake employees added, false OT, misused benefits bleeding the bottom line.
Employees taking inappropriate kickbacks, gifts, trips from vendors.
To prevent and detect employee fraud it is necessary to:
Speak to our team today for a confidential discussion and find out how we can help uncover and prevent workplace fraud.
