A well-designed compliance and ethics programme will help minimise integrity-related problems, but even the best-run companies need to be prepared for occasional setbacks, whether these relate to extortion demands from corrupt officials, or to the discovery that – despite the company’s compliance programme – individual employees have broken the rules.

Control Risks provides the expert professional advice that companies need to withstand crises, and emerge stronger from the experience with better preventative measures in place. Our services include corporate investigations, forensic accounting, and litigation support.

Examples of our work

Investigations and problem-solving in India

This example involved many of the classic ingredients of international corruption cases, including intermediaries who paid bribes to decision-makers.

Keeping kickbacks in the family

A fraud investigation on behalf of an international retailer in China

Corruption, false accounting and money laundering

Investigations of a whistleblower’s allegations concerning corruption in the former Soviet Union shortly before our client’s initial public offering in the US.

Investigation and business ethics consultancy in the former Soviet Union

We investigated an ethics-related problem involving a senior local manager, and designed an ethics training programme to reduce the risk of similar lapses in the future.

Merger, acquisition and kickbacks in East Asia

A western investor who had taken over privatized factories in East Asia discovered that key employees had been receiving kickbacks from local suppliers. We conducted a detailed investigation before devising a strategy to remove the malefactors, and to put the operation on to a sound legal and commercial footing.

Corporate corruption in Southern Africa

A Southern African state government commissioned a forensic investigation into suspicions of corporate corruption in a public/private joint-venture.

Supporting Hiscox policy holders

Control Risks offers fraud advisory services as well as personal travel security advice to Hiscox home insurance policy holders.