Case studies
What we found, and what changed.
Selected matters, the problem we were asked to solve and the outcome for the client. Client identities are withheld to protect confidentiality.
Case files
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Filter by practice. Each case shows what we were asked, what we found and what changed for the client.
The CEO's Three Vendors
A subsidiary CEO routed a rural retail rollout through vendors fronted by his own associates. The money trail led back to him.
Zero Skin in the Game
An investor funded a road-construction contractor. Within months, the founder's own contribution had quietly gone to zero and the diversion had begun.
The Fortune That Wasn't There
Shareholders suspected their managing director of hiding a fortune. On the data available, the money trail did not support that suspicion, and it surfaced employee frauds instead.
Fourteen Years on Both Sides
For fourteen years, the man who approved a manufacturer's transporters was also its transporter.
The Budget That Wasn't Blown
An anonymous letter accused a school's leadership of a fivefold budget overrun and favouritism. The facts cleared them and surfaced a different risk.
The Villa on the Office Laptop
A key-account manager granted customers settlements he had no authority to give, and took a share back over many years. His own records showed where the cash went.
The Customer That Didn't Exist Yet
A logistics company signed a credit contract with a customer a week before it was incorporated, and paid the customer's sister company to move goods that may never have moved.
What the References Didn't Volunteer
Two profiles: a senior candidate whose integrity held up but whose CV did not, and a promoter whose eleven-company family group showed nothing adverse.
One Screenshot
A confidential deal strategy reached a client's competitor. The advisor responsible deleted his tracks over eight days. The devices still told the story.
The Collection That Launched Twice
An export house's seasonal designs appeared at a rival supplier and on a new online label weeks before its own buyer launch. The leak ran through its own design floor.
Workers Who Never Clocked In
A garment manufacturer paid wages and statutory dues for contract workers who did not exist, through a labour contractor and its own time office.
Stock That Existed Only on Paper
A borrower inflated stock statements and booked circular sales among related firms to draw working capital, then moved the money into promoter property.
The Process That Walked Out
Departing R&D scientists took a specialty chemical process with them. Months later a new competitor filed for approval on an almost identical route.
Targets Met, Stock Unsold
A consumer goods company's regional sales team hit quarterly targets by pushing stock into distributors and booking secondary sales to retailers that did not exist.
Repairs on Cars That Never Came In
A vehicle dealer group's service staff raised warranty and free-service claims on vehicles that never visited the workshop, and sold the parts drawn against them.
The Hospital That Never Had Empty Beds
A cluster of network hospitals and agents generated admissions that were inflated, unnecessary or invented, and billed them to a health insurer.
Invoices Without Steel
A steel processor's purchases were invoiced through paper traders while the metal came from unbilled sources. The company was left facing tax-credit reversal and penalties.
Real Auction, Unverified Middleman
Before paying a deposit on a distressed property, a bidder asked us to check the auction, the account and the person who brought the deal.
The Family Name at Work
A trusted insider of a promoter family drew a salary from the group while growing his own business in the same trade, on the strength of the family's standing.
Revenue Borrowed from Next Year
Ahead of a growth round, a consumer brand's revenue was inflated through related distributors, bill-and-hold sales and money sent round in a circle.
Clean Money, Long Route
A promoter's share capital and loans into his listed company came through a chain of small firms whose own money could not be explained.
Years Later
Years after selling industrial land, and once it had been resold at a much higher price, the seller claimed the sale was unauthorised. We rebuilt the payment trail.
The Variation Orders Paid the Kickback
A large civil sub-contract was won on a low bid and made profitable later, through variation orders approved by the project director whose relative's firm was paid 'consultancy'.
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