CORPORATE INVESTIGATIONS

What is a Corporate Investigation?
A corporate investigation is an investigation into a corporation to find out whether staff, management or third parties have committed any kind of unlawful activities. An investigation of this type could be initiated by either the employer (corporation) or an employee or third party.

Types of corporate investigations could include:

Intellectual property infringement

Intellectual property infringement could include the theft of intellectual property by staff or a third party. Theft of trade secrets, the theft of a corporate database of clients to be used by a disgruntled employee.

Corruption

A corporation or business must have their reputation protected and that reputatiuon and trust could be damaged by corruption. Corruption could include such matters as bribes, inappropriate behaviour by staff in relation to representatives or other companies, public officials, as well as improper payments.

Defamation

Corporate investigations could also include fraudulent reviews on social media to false claims by competitors. With not just our investigative backgrounf but legal background we can assist with cease and desist letters to having the process of removing material such as offending reviews taken down.

Employee theft

It is common in the workplace to have employee theft.Theft could include matters such as Vendor fraud, Money laundering, Embezzlement, Accounting irregularities and violations, Misappropriation and Missing inventory,

Violation of Data

Corporate investigations could include the theft, loss or hacking of corporate data. This is quite common in corporate Australia and happens more often then an organisation thinks.

Company policy violations

Matters in the workplace that breach company policy violations repeatedly and/or of a serious offence, constitute a corporate investigation