Internal Corporate Investigations

Internal Corporate Investigations
When allegations about the business practices of individuals within companies arise, Larsen AVR Group, Inc. is frequently retained to investigate in order to minimize the client company’s vulnerability as well as to assist in determining whether legal action is warranted.

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Allegations regarding kickbacks and an ownership interest in company vendors. One case involved a relatively small company that provided shipping supplies to major corporations. Allegations arose that an officer of the company was making purchases from vendors of computer-related products who were paying him kickbacks in return. Moreover, the allegations also suggested that this officer might have had an ownership interest in one or more of these vendors. Larsen AVR Group was engaged to investigate the background of several individuals and companies in the client company records. Our investigations uncovered that one of the vendors was not even properly registered as a business entity, and that there were significant questions about the ownership of several other vendors. When confronted with the allegations and the results of our investigations, the company officer promptly resigned his position with our client.
Allegations of kickbacks and payoffs made to high-ranking management officials. Larsen AVR Group was retained by a major international retailer to investigate allegations relating to kickbacks and payoffs made to high-ranking management officials of the client company. The initial phase of our investigation confirmed that management of a division of our client company did indeed receive “perks” from vendors that were retained to
perform cleaning and repair functions. Our investigation also discovered that, unbeknownst to our client company, it had contracted with a vendor that was managed
and substantially owned by an individual who had pled guilty in two separate Federal Courts of crimes relating to bribing company and union officials, as well as in another Federal case alleging loan fraud-related violations. Moreover, we uncovered the fact that the individual in question was also an associate of several major east coast organized crime figures who were on his payroll as "ghost employees."
Allegations of the altering and diversion of checks issued to vendors. A major health care organization that was experiencing the altering and diversion of numerous checks it had issued to vendors retained Larsen AVR Group to investigate. We traced the checks to an individual and, through him, identified an employee of our client who worked in the mailroom and was diverting outgoing checks to a gang who specialized in altering checks. We also identified other victim companies and notified those companies of the problem. Subsequently, two other health care clients retained Larsen AVR Group to investigate the compromise of member information and the use of that information in perpetrating Medicare fraud. In one case, we interviewed 70 client company employees and were able to identify the probable source of the compromised information. We also discovered that a high-ranking official of our client, who was also a key suspect in our investigation, had previously been convicted of murder.

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