Unitpo lDetective   has private investigators / detectives with experience in investigating cases of fraud encountered in its many forms. A detective involved in investigating any form of fraud will ensure that the finality of the case will be accomplished only when the person or organization that conducts illegal / fraudulent activities in order to obtain undue financial gain will have to answer for their actions. In order to make the conduct the most effective company fraud investigations, our investigators are working with specialists from various fields of reference (accountants, auditors, lawyers, IT personnel etc.).

The scope of our fraud investigation services includes, but is not limited to:

• False payments or fraudulent financial operations - fraudulent pay schemes can include false statements or false recording of expenditure values, the unauthorized use of financial instruments that a company has (bank accounts, cards attached to accounts etc), stealing information and data of bank accounts or electronic payment instruments attached to them (cards), conducting financial transactions without the accounts / cards’ holder’s authorization, settlement of concealed work expenses (not provided), forging documents regarding payments made / revenues collected (invoices, receipts, work cards, tax records, use of a company's payment system for conducting fraudulent payments, etc.
• Extortion / economic blackmail - When an individual from a company requests money or other advantages in order to "help" take a decision, it can affect the overall activity in the company and may even endanger the desired results. Cases of extortion are often discovered when informants provide information about the persons concerned. Unitpol Detective can help you discover these people when the extorted do not offer details about their identity.
• Bribery - represent a sum of money or any kind of objects given or promised to a person, in order to determine them to break their professional obligation or to fulfill them according to the illegal desires of an individual. This type of fraud is difficult to detect under normal circumstances and, in the absence of proper investigation, it can damage a company's image. Contact us and our investigators will be ready to identify the source of the problem.
• Long-term fraud - a fraudulent company focuses on developing good business relationships and a positive trading background in order to earn the trust of business partners (e.g. suppliers). Then, the fraudulent company places a few small orders and it regularly pays on time, and then places an extremely large order, benefiting from the trust created, and disappears with the goods. This type of fraud is seen mainly among ghost companies.
• Shell companies or nonexistent products / services - a trader which is recorded as paying VAT and, with potential fraudulent intent, purchases or declares that it purchases goods or services without VAT and provides them with the payment of VAT, but without refunding this tax to the rightful national authority. Commercial relationships which they can initiate with good faith companies can ultimately affect the latter, both from a financial standpoint, as well as legal and image capital. Unitpol Detective can help you discover if a company who you want to develop business relations with is a ghost company and how you should stay away from it.
• Forged or altered invoices - in order to seem fair, but in fact they constitute a financial gain for those who commit fraud.