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In its simplest application, a financial investigation attempts to determine where money comes from, how it moves, and how it is used. This type of investigation is often crucial in fraud investigations, corporate investigations, theft investigations, embezzlement investigations, money laundering investigations, tax evasion investigations, asset searches, criminal investigations to name a few.

Financial investigations are usually very document and time intensive. Such investigations involve multiple record sources, such as bank account information, real estate files, motor vehicle records, etc., which point to the movement of money. Any record that pertains to or shows the paper trail of events involving money is important. The major goal in a financial investigation is to identify and document the movement of money.

As we described corporate theft, insurance fraud, health care fraud, telemarketing fraud and terrorist financing are just a few of the types of crimes that revolve around money. In these cases, a financial investigation often becomes the key to a finding missing and hidden assets as well as the collecting of evidence necessary for criminal prosecution. Traditional law enforcement relies on investigative tools such as crime scene analysis, physical evidence, fingerprint identification or eyewitness accounts. The limitations of these techniques become obvious to those who are trying to prove wrongdoing in a sophisticated financial crime. With no proof, there is no conviction.

Financial investigations are also used in cases such as divorce or business partner separation to track and locate missing and hidden assets.

·Bank Account locates
·Due Diligence
·Embezzlement
·Employee Theft
·Financial Fraud CFE & CFS
·Hidden Assets
·Insurance Fraud
·Money Laundering
·Probate
·Stock Options Fraud
·Collections
·Medical Fraud
·Accounting Irregularities
·Accounting Manipulation
·Accounting System Vulnerability
·Computer Forensics
·Electronic Data Recovery
·Evidence Collection
·Misappropriation of Assets
·Financial Misconduct
·Internal Controls Analysis
·Information and Data Security
·Occupational Fraud
·Estimation of Loss

FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS