Financial Investigations

Financial Investigations: Building Profiles, Tracing Money, and Supporting Prosecutions

An important first step in any study is to create a subject profile. In the preliminary stages, investigators can use open source information to develop an investigation plan. This includes assessing the complexity of the case and building a subject profile.

Building a Subject Profile with Open Source Information

Open source information does more than support a subject profile. It also helps investigators identify accomplices and potential witnesses. Investigators can use it to draw up an entity or financial profile. It even provides a foundation for search and seizure warrants.

Financial Investigation Techniques and Forensic Analysis

Financial investigations rely on techniques like forensic analysis. Investigators use this analysis to detect financial crimes such as theft, fraud, asset theft, and money laundering.

Conducting Financial Interviews with External Auditors

External auditors conduct financial interviews with a range of sources. These sources include accountants and representatives of financial institutions and insurance companies. Auditors collect information related to financial affairs from these interviews. They also apply accounting, auditing, information technology, and investigative skills. These skills help them examine financial evidence tied to an alleged crime.

Our Financial Investigation Practice

Able Legal Investigations brings together experts in forensic accounting, data analysis, forensic and compliance auditing, and financial crime investigations. We work in partnership with forensic accountants, CPAs, and other qualified financial professionals.

Working with Forensic Accountants and Financial Professionals

Our Financial Investigation team can help you solve complex financial investigation problems. We conduct comprehensive investigations and internal investigations. We also help you establish and maintain risk management and mitigation protocols.

Preparing Findings for Court

We approach every investigation with one goal in mind: our findings must hold up in court. We draw up our reports, analyses, and documentation with that standard in place from the start.

The Evolving US Financial System and Investigative Responsibilities

The US financial system has evolved from paper money to plastic credit cards to digital information. Our investigative responsibilities have evolved right along with it. Our team includes former law enforcement officers and prosecution experts. They have investigated some of the largest and most complex financial cases in the world.

Increasing Regulatory Scrutiny of Financial Institutions

Regulators, investigators, and prosecutors are increasing their scrutiny of financial institutions, directors, and officials. All signs point to this trend continuing. As malfeasance and financial litigation grow more common, companies must stay vigilant about the risks they face.

Managing Fraud and Financial Manipulation Risks

Fraud and financial manipulation can come from any source. Left unnoticed or uncontrolled, they can cause serious financial damage to a business or a potential business deal.

Money Laundering and Global Financial Transactions

Money laundering is a complex crime. It involves a huge number of financial transactions that move through financial outlets around the world.

Using Financial Data to Trace and Compensate Trafficking Victims

Financial data serves two key purposes in trafficking cases. Investigators use it as evidence to trace the trafficking chain. They can also use seized illicit proceeds identified by the financial sector to compensate victims of human trafficking.

The Financial Motive Behind Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is, at its core, a financially motivated crime. Criminals pursue financial gain above all else. In doing so, they leave financial traces as they try to launder their proceeds and spend their illicit profits.