Employee Crime in the Bergisches Land

Employee crime occurs across all sectors and manifests itself in offences such as fraud, theft, embezzlement, disclosure of confidential information or sabotage. In most cases it involves individual perpetrators, but cases involving accomplices and or paying clients (for example in industrial espionage) are also regularly encountered by Kurtz Detective Agency Wuppertal in professional practice.

 

The expertise of our IHK-certified corporate detectives and our experience from numerous successfully solved cases of employee crime are at your company’s disposal: +49 202 5289 0063.

Court-Admissible Case Investigation in Fraud and Property Offences

The supermarket cashier who does not enter all items into the till, the warehouse worker who declares a perfectly functioning chainsaw as defective, the delivery driver from whom goods “regularly disappear”, the accountant who siphons off funds for personal use through barely traceable account movements and so forth. As an entrepreneur, you are often powerless in the face of such fraud and property offences, as gathering evidence is generally difficult.

 

Regardless of whether you know who the perpetrator is and require assistance in securing proof, or whether you are aware that a criminal offence has been committed but not of the identity of the offender, the investigators of Kurtz Investigations Wuppertal will take on the matter. We provide comprehensive advice, discuss our case-specific investigative options with you and obtain evidence admissible in court: kontakt@kurtz-detektei-wuppertal.de.

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When an accountant lines his own pockets, the affected company may, through no fault of its own, also find itself facing a tax investigation authorities’ inquiry — and this is only one example among many.

Case Study: Warehouse Crime

Sometimes the surveillance of a single target person is not sufficient. If the matter does not concern a lone perpetrator but several delinquents who enrich themselves from company property in collusion, poach customers for a secretly established side business or pass on internal information to third parties in return for bribes, research and surveillance can become more extensive. A case example:

 

Mr Anton, a warehouse employee at a large department store for electrical and consumer electronics, regularly diverted individual items for his own use. As these offences initially remained within the three-figure loss range, he was able to act discreetly and undisturbed. However, thieves rarely content themselves with small quantities and sums; once initial offences are successfully committed without consequences, they begin to think on a larger scale. Mr Anton therefore informed two friends of his activities and recruited them to assist him. The warehouse worker handed his accomplices an access key to his employer’s warehouse and the code to deactivate the alarm system. At the time of the offence he did not actively participate in his friends’ burglary, but instead went on a family outing and ensured that he was seen, thereby creating an alibi. Meanwhile, the accomplices entered the warehouse and loaded a van they had brought with valuable goods. To simulate forced entry, they subsequently damaged the lock, door and frame using burglary tools. Once the matter had died down, they intended to sell the goods online and divide the profit equally among the three of them.

Multi-Stage Models of Perpetrator Identification

In such a case it may initially appear difficult to prove the employee’s complicity. Difficult — but not impossible. Our detectives from Wuppertal have various methods at their disposal to locate the perpetrators and the stolen goods. These include forensic examination of the crime scene, which in this instance revealed that the door had not been forced open, the collection, analysis and tracking of traces, for example by means of tracking dogs (mantrailers), monitoring fencing markets through scene contacts and the surveillance of identified suspects in order to obtain final corroborating information.

 

You can rely on the experience and investigative expertise of our corporate detectives in Wuppertal. For a non-binding consultation regarding a specific case or to discuss suitable preventive measures, please contact the investigators of Kurtz Detective Agency in Wuppertal in confidence: +49 202 5289 0063.