INVESTIGATIONS

Even when you are "best in class" things might go wrong, deliberately or by accident. When you are facing fraud, a potential compliance violation (e.g. bribery, embargo breaches, money laundering), allegations in the press or from a whistle blower, you need to act. Our team members have an extensive experience with investigations in many countries in 4 continents.

Do you really know the facts?

There is a (suspicion of) fraud. What are you going to do?

When you are confronted with a (potential) fraud you have to act fast. How do you secure the relevant data (documents, files, emails)? Who should be informed and to what extend? Should the investigation be done internally or by an external third party? Our professionals have been leading complex investigations in the position of a project leader, an internal auditor as well as a law enforcement officer.

You are facing a potential compliance violation

There are various types of potential compliance violations. For some topics like anti-corruption, anti-money-laundering and export controls and sanctions, you probably have a lot of expertise in your company. Other topics can be more complicated. In the recent years there have been compliance incidents with e.g. LIBOR and FOREX. For topics like these, there is usually limited expertise available. On top of that the expertise is mostly concentrated in only a few persons. How should you investigate such a topic? We are happy to talk to you about how to organise this kind of high profile investigations.

You are required to have a lookback performed by a third party

In the last decade financial institutions have been fined billions for anti-money-laundering violations and breaches of sanctions requirements and programs. The involved financial institutions are often required to perform extensive transaction reviews and report suspicious activities or potential breaches to the regulators. Our team members have been leading various lookback projects and know what it takes to be effective as well as cost sensitive.

Our investigation services include:

Fraud Investigations (incl. data collection, review, and conducting interviews)
Compliance Investigations with a special focus on but not limited to corruption, money-laundering, embargo & sanctions violations)
Supporting public investigations (e.g. prosecutor's office, government authorities)
Lookbacks
Asset Tracing
Project management of investigations and lookbacks
Supporting settlement negotiations
IT Forensics