With a view to finding what, if any, wrongdoing has been committed by employees, management, or third parties, corporate investigations are a thorough look into corporations, organizations, or businesses. Usually after someone reports an issue, the corporate investigations aim to answer some important questions. Today, we at Advanced Private Investigator & Security of Miami FL would like to elaborate on the corporate investigations.

Corporate Investigation Questions

The primary questions to ask in a corporate investigation include:
1) What happened?
2) Who is responsible?
3) Why did it happen or how was it allowed to happen?
4) Is the corporate liable or at risk?

How a Private Investigator Conducts Corporate Investigations

Conducted by a trained and licensed investigator, such as one by Advanced Private Investigator & Security of Miami FL, corporate investigations analyze communications, interview employees, examine financial accounts, possibly go undercover conducting surveillance, and apply other skills to get the answers and even work with attorneys to gather evidence for any potential court proceedings. Company’s that attempt to conduct an in house investigation end up in poor results because of conflicts of interests or other misguided attempts. Corporate investigations can identify key individuals that are conducting poor behaviors, terminate them, and salvage the reputation of your business.

White Collar Crimes & Other Subjects of Corporate Investigations

Corporate investigations deal with all types of wrongdoing and misconduct by employees, management, and outside parties. Corporate investigations can help you with types of fraud, misconduct, or illegal activities such as:
1) Violations, both legal and regulatory. Corporate investigations can look into any suspected law or regulation violation. By taking the initiative and acting your instincts, you can avoid a lot of legal troubles for extended parties by addressing and identifying the people involved. Depending on the severity and details of the violation, authorities may ask for an internal investigation prior to them stepping in.
2) Data breach. A serious and increasingly common issue for many businesses is data theft, loss, and hacking. Not typically the result of a sophisticated hack, but when the loss of data happens is usually at the hand of a disgruntled employee, a simple error in security privileges where someone was issued clearance that should not have been.
3) Employment complications. Disputes regarding the hiring process, such as discrimination lawsuits, or inter-employee misconduct. Investigations will be paramount concerning infringement on intellectual property rights, sexual misconduct, harassment, violations regarding civil rights, discrimination, and violations concerning Fair Credit Reporting Act.
4) Financial wrongdoing. Over 75% of employees have admitted to stealing from their employer at some point, making financial misconduct a very common issue. Such types of misconduct include vendor fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, accounting irregularities and violations, misappropriation, and inventory shrinkage.
5) Intellectual property infringement. This aspect can even involve corporate espionage, or employee theft, is most often the case, of the intellectual property of the company.
6) Corruption. Harming business performance and public trust, corruption can be a difficult matter to overcome. Representatives of other companies, improper payments, poor public relations among the employees, and kickbacks are just a few of the topics investigators look through.
7) Defamation and libel. From everything to false claims by competitors to fraudulent Glassdoor or Yelp reviews, libel and defamation can hurt a business. Private investigators will identify the individuals involved and serve them with cease and desist papers can be served, or other appropriate action.

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