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Brief: Financier — the fraud
Our client, a large company specializing in cargo transportation, considered a candidate for the post of financial director. His resume and a letter of recommendation from a large Moscow bank, where the applicant had worked before, were sent to our agency for checking-up. Decision of the case: Faultlessly written resume with attached photo of a very presentable man, excellent recommendations. It seemed there’s nothing to find fault! However, the detailed inspection revealed many interesting facts. First, the degree of our specialist was, though not false, but not quite honestly earned: it was given to the candidate by his father — Vice-Rector of the private university, which our applicant graduated from.
Checking of the first job of the applicant revealed the facts of alcohol abuse. Gathering of data from the second applicant’s job gave even more interesting results. The Chief of Security Service of the regional branch of a large bank, where the candidate had worked, shared the confidential information: our financier was dismissed because of a regular deceit of the management. Moreover, this employee paid off the soft loans, received in the bank, only under the threat of court. As a result of work it became obvious that this candidate for the post of financial director was not absolutely suitable. How much money could the company have lost if it had taken such a professional for the top position?
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Brief: My dangerous baby-sitter
Modern life in a big city often makes parents to leave their children under the care of other people — teachers in nurseries and kindergartens, as well as home nurses/baby-sitters. And sometimes nobody can guarantee that these people are professional enough and do their job properly. Decision of the case: One day a young father appealed to our detective agency for help. He hired a nurse for his little daughter through employment agency and decided to check her recommendations to be on the safe side. After superficial check we found out that this nurse was a mother-in-law to the woman who had written a letter of recommendation. In short, all her professional experience consisted in episodic care for her own grandchildren. For more detailed information about the applicant our detective visited her residence. The information, received from the neighbors of so-called “nanny”, caused a shock: she was characterized as a drunkard, not working and inclined to petty intrigues and quarrels. Thus, if we speak about children’s health and their well-being, we cannot rely only on letters of recommendation and the surety of the third parties!
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Brief: «A bargain»
Decision of the case: It’s not a secret that in modern business the most valuable resource is information. But numerous cases of fraud and speculations on the part of unfair partners confirm the necessity of preliminary check of potential partners. The checking of the potential partner of our clients showed, that its financial and economic indicators were far outside norm. In addition, the company replaced the ownership not so long ago. All these facts allowed us to assume that the company had rather vague prospects of the further development. On the basis of the verification, we recommended our clients to be extremely careful about this company or even to give up any interaction with it. But it turned out that our arguments were not convincing enough for the customer. As it was found out later, our client had concluded a bargain with this partner, having bought a plant belonging to the problem partner. It was quite predictable, that the asset had already been burdened with a credit debt of many millions and actually had no value. As a result, the credulous client lost dozens millions rubles. Not without our help, some of the money was returned later, but that’s another story. The conclusion is obvious: it is better to pay a few thousand rubles for reliable information about potential business partner today, than to lose a few million rubles tomorrow.
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