Investigations & Intelligence
Bad Science & A Billion Dollar Crisis
When a global food and drink brand heard rumours that early results of a secret scientific study into one of their products indicated that it caused cancer, their concerns could not have been more serious. If true, it meant the collapse of the brand and litigation running potentially into billions of USD$ dollars. With the laboratory staying tight-lipped, the client wanted to know the facts and called us to find out. It was one of the most challenging assignments we had ever accepted. Nonetheless, we were able to obtain irrefutable proof that the chief scientist of the research programme was using illegitimate methods which massively skewed the outcomes of clinical trials, the published results of which would have been catastrophic for our client. Our evidence completely discredited the research, enabling our client to take action to prevent its publication.
Gone Phishing, Catch of the day
Or how we brought to an end and identified the perpetrators of a sophisticated phishing fraud, which had netted GBP£ hundreds of thousands of pounds from scores of account holders of a prestigious London business. After securing the client’s IT systems, we traced the fraudulently obtained money to the bank accounts it was paid into and identified the account holders and their criminal network, which we handed on a plate to law enforcement.
Agent Provocateur
Good public interest journalism and freedom of speech, are vitally important in an open society. Paying people to lie and publishing allegations which are known to be false, is not. When a Hollywood A-list star discovered a book was being written about them, which was rumoured to be highly critical, they commissioned us to help in stopping its publication. We obtained evidence its author had paid and otherwise encouraged, contributors and sources to provide interviews and information, which they and the author knew to be false and defamatory. Our evidence assisted the client’s lawyers in preventing the book’s publication.
You can't hide from us
For five years a defendant in a GBP£ multi-million debt case successfully evaded enforcement by claiming to be resident abroad in a non-reciprocal jurisdiction and without assets in England & Wales. With time on the statute clock running out, lawyers for the claimant contacted us. We succeeded where other agencies had previously failed and proved the defendant was in fact substantially residing and held high value assets within England, and how they had, among other things, manipulated records of the ownership of their assets in a manner which had defeated even sophisticated conventional search methods.
Tracing
We have successfully traced dozens of deliberately elusive entities engaged in financial crime, blackmail, online and anonymous defamation, and others seeking to hide their whereabouts to evade service of court documents.