Allegations of vendor fraud, harassment, financial malfeasance or theft of assets warrant careful, confidential and skillful investigation. Kroll’s experts have deep experience in conducting investigations and assisting counsel to support case-specific legal strategies.
Our Expertise
Conducting intricate investigations is Kroll’s signature capability. Our greatest strength is formulating effective fact-finding strategies, deploying expert resources and bringing cases to resolution in an evidentiary sound manner, as swiftly as possible. Our team is a unique, market-leading mix of investigators, investigative accountants and cyber experts with experience drawn from the legal profession, law enforcement, the intelligence community, cyber security and journalism. Kroll’s experts and subject matter specialists draw upon all of Kroll’s resources as appropriate to an assignment.
Case Studies
Employee Fraud
Kroll was retained by a technology company to investigate concerns regarding the activities of certain senior employees, including allegations that falsified documents were prepared and false expense claims submitted to facilitate the provision of personal benefits to customer representatives as inducements to purchase goods and services from the company.
Our investigation included reviewing financial documents and data, collecting and analyzing electronic data such as emails and conducting interviews of selected employees and vendors. Our findings were detailed in a comprehensive report provided to counsel. As a result of our investigation, the company terminated several employees and proactively worked with its affected customers to identify the representatives involved and to determine the extent of the impact of the questionable conduct on the client’s operations.
Bid-Rigging Investigation
Kroll was retained to investigate allegations of bid rigging and receipt of gifts and inducements by an employee. Kroll conducted a fact-finding investigation to determine the extent of inappropriate activity, if any, and to identify the employees and vendors involved. The investigative procedures included:
- Gathering and preserving key electronic data, including extraction of relevant email accounts, imaging of selected computers and imaging of smartphone devices. Kroll’s ediscovery review tools were utilized to process and analyze relevant electronic data, and forensic analysis was conducted on selected hard drives and smartphones to retrieve deleted data. This analysis identified numerous questionable communications through
- Conducting interviews of selected employees and vendor representatives to gather information relating to procurement transactions and the relationship between employees and vendors.
- Conducting background research to identify connections, if any, between employees and vendors or any potential lifestyle issues.
Kroll’s multidisciplinary team included forensic accounting experts and former law enforcement professionals and cyber investigators and business intelligence specialists. Following completion of the investigation and pursuant to a settlement agreement, a senior management employee was terminated.
Sexual Harassment Investigation
Kroll conducted a sexual harassment investigation on behalf of a non-profit organization involving allegations by a volunteer against a senior manager of the organization. The investigation was conducted in accordance with relevant legislation and involved the review of email along with interviews of the complainant, alleged offender and other employees. Our investigation and report resulted in a settlement agreement and the departure of the senior manager.
About Kroll
Kroll is the leading global provider of risk solutions. For more than 40 years, Kroll has helped clients make confident risk management decisions about people, assets, operations and security through a wide range of investigations, due diligence and compliance, cyber security, physical and operational security, and data and information management services. Headquartered in New York with more than 55 offices across 26 countries, Kroll has a multidisciplinary team of nearly 2,000 employees and serves a global clientele of law firms, financial institutions, corporations, non-profit institutions, government agencies and individuals.
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