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Litigation Support & Evidence Gathering

Litigation Support.
Evidence gathering to help you find the TRUTH.

Evidence Gathering

As a leading Enquiry Agent, and with vast litigation support and evidence gathering experience, we understand that evidence is key to successful litigation and dispute resolution teams.

Our litigation support services have successfully provided clients suffering from frauds, corruption cases and intellectual property infringements with the expertise and resources to efficiently gather evidence needed for a positive outcome and help recover their assets.

Evidence Gathering

Applying the highest ethical standards, TenIntelligence ensures that the evidence gathering process complies with all relevant laws, rules and regulations.

We assist insolvency practitioners, litigation support teams and fraud investigators with the collection of evidence, through digital forensics, profiling and asset tracing.

Whatever the investigation, each case must begin with the intention that it could end in litigation.

All documents that could be relevant must be secured at the earliest possible stage of an investigation and handled properly thereafter.

As a leading Enquiry Agent, our evidence gathering, litigation support and investigations will:

  • identify and locate critical evidence
  • secure, schedule, interrogate and analyse evidence legally obtained from the client’s communication records, data entry logs, audit and financial statement reviews and personnel files
  • review of evidence gathered from digital forensics, CCTV footage, mobile surveillance, interviews and profiling research
  • identify evidence from Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Human Source Intelligence (HUMINT) methods
  • interrogate online media and press databases, court documents, global business filings, property records, web-based communities and social networks to support the evidence gathering process
  • summarise the key facts, with supporting evidence, in an easily presented manner
  • map out relevant findings, corporate structures and assets in network diagrams (such as i2).

Asset Tracing

The illicit gains from corporate fraud are often concealed in complex financial accounts, offshore trusts and shell companies, but ultimately, fraudsters use this money to finance their lavish lifestyles or to hide their gambling debts. Asset tracing and speed are critical to successful recoveries.

Our Fraud Examiners (following ACFE guidelines) and Enquiry Agents have extensive cross-border and international asset tracing experience in working with the legal and law enforcement profession to identify, locate and help freeze the proceeds of fraud using forensic research and investigation techniques.

 

Asset Recovery: Investigation

As part of our asset tracing investigations, we will:

  • provide evidence of global assets to determine whether they can be frozen and/or recovered using local and international laws
  • assess whether the debt or respondent is, or has any association to the United Kingdom, strengthening the legal powers to enforce and recover via worldwide disclosure orders
  • identify properties, commercial interests and other recoverable assets
  • review company filings and evidence to identify links to tangible assets and bank accounts
  • unravel and plot complex offshore company structures using link charting techniques
  • liaise with the appropriate financial institutions to assist in the detection and recovery of misappropriated assets gained from fraud
  • apply a forensic examination of digital assets to identify bank accounts, crypto-currency and links to other assets

 

Asset Profiling: Pre-Litigation

We conduct asset profiling investigations for the legal profession who are looking to establish whether an individual or company has any significant assets or liabilities before pursuing costly litigation.

 

Asset Profiling: Significant Debtors

Organisations often give lines of credit to their regular or trusted customers to keep revenue streams operating.

On occasions, these credit lines become large debts. We help clients establish whether an individual or company has any significant assets that could be used as leverage for a repayment plan.

 

Debtor Tracing

We help clients trace and identify significant debtors who have moved their assets or residence to another location.

We have extensive experience working with the legal profession to identify assets using forensic research, investigation techniques and applying freezing orders.

Witness Tracing & Research

During fraud investigations and other legal proceedings, witnesses to the original fraud are often required to provide historical statements and or physical evidence.

Furthermore, our Enquiry Agents use a variety of different research techniques and databases to help organisations trace witnesses and other counter-parties to help clients win their cases.

Witness Research

In most legal proceedings and disputes, the key evidence on which a case can succeed or fail, is often given by witnesses. Investigating the background of a witness and their evidence prior to any trial, will help identify anomalies that could be either detrimental or beneficial to the case.  Finding information that could help discredit the witness by identifying inconsistencies in their background or evidence, may also help lawyers before cross-examination.

Witness Interviews

Interviews with witnesses can be conducted at any stage in an investigation.  Critically, the aim is to collect supporting evidence which can be used in legal proceedings, tribunal or for making a claim under insurance.  Our Certified Fraud Examiners have experience in interviewing obstructive witnesses, co-conspirators and the suspects themselves and apply professional techniques and principles to seek out the truth.

It is not essential that a guilty suspect does not admit their responsibility. Deliberate lies, continued deceit and denials in the face of overwhelming evidence, will be just as condemning.  Before interviewing a suspect or witness, we ensure that we rehearse, prepare and plan for every eventuality, including confessions, counter-attacks and denials.

Surveillance & Counter Surveillance

Static observations, site visits and mobile surveillance are often valuable tools to aid the detection of evidence during evidence gathering.

Observation may be from a fixed position or may involve following suspects or vehicles to monitor activities around the suspected fraud, or to identify receivers of stolen goods. In all cases, photographs, digital video may be taken and produced as evidence.

Despite what is portrayed in the movies, surveillance is a specialist skill, calling for great care and planning.

Our surveillance teams consist of former police and military officers who have been trained to the highest standards within their professions. Whether a static observation is required to a six operative mobile surveillance assignment, our teams provide surveillance services of the highest quality using state of the art surveillance communications, vehicles and media equipment.

Surveillance Guidelines

Our teams regularly submit Section 9 Witness Statements and records its evidence under Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000 and GDPR guidelines.

Find out how we can help you

We understand that due diligence, corporate investigations and protection services can be sensitive and complex matters, and we take steps to ensure that all of our clients’ information is kept strictly confidential.

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