Fraud & Corruption Investigations

We help institutions take proactive measures to identify mischarges and miscoded rates. Our experts leverage utilize advanced analytics of transactional data to identify overcharged accounts, as well as design and implement effective remediation plans to reimburse affected customers. CRA’s professionals have extensive experience assisting with customer account remediation from consumer lending, loan origination and servicing, or investment management accounts.

With over $1 trillion laundered through the global financial system annually, banks continue to incur heavy penalties from regulators, along with damage to their brands. CRA understands that each institution faces distinct challenges and appreciates that these assignments can be a significant burden and distraction to a financial institution of any size. Our experts and customized, data-driven solutions are well positioned and designed to identify and remediate compliance gaps in accordance with industry leading practices, while at the same time minimize the disruption to the client.

CRA has extensive experience in identifying and tracing assets both domestically and internationally in the course of litigation, bankruptcies, and to satisfy legal judgments.  The approach combines desktop research, forensic examination of books and records, on-the-ground source inquiries, and innovative analytical techniques across a variety of platforms to identify patterns and anomalies that may highlight fraudulent transfers and trace the destination of misappropriated funds.

When allegations of non-compliance in the procurement process arise, our team is experienced at investigating these claims, as well as helping clients remediate related policies, procedures, and controls. These types of allegations can arise under a variety of circumstances, but all involve alleged collusion during what was supposed to be a competitive bidding process.

CRA has assisted in assessing allegations of noncompliance by using a variety of tools and techniques to preserve, analyze, and triangulate corporate, personal, public, and other third-party evidence, ranging from accounting records to email communications, and from chat logs to phone call records.

The advent of cryptocurrencies and other novel blockchain applications creates tempting new opportunities to perpetrate fraud and misconduct. Increasingly, the ability to forensically navigate these new technologies is essential when allegations arise.  Our blockchain investigations experts are equipped to deploy both an in-depth understanding of the rapidly changing regulatory expectations as well as sophisticated tools and techniques that can be used to download, preserve, analyze, and triangulate data contained in public and private blockchains.

When allegations of fraud and misconduct arise, getting to truth often means triangulating multiple data stores, including digital evidence. We deploy focused teams of experienced, cross-trained professionals who forensically preserve, analyze, and report on the nature, extent, and implications of relevant digital evidence. Our insights enable our clients to ring-fence exposure and make defensible legal, regulatory, and business decisions more quickly. We are also often called upon to present findings from our investigations to regulators and law enforcement and serve as liability and damages experts in subsequent litigation matters.

Our team helps clients collect, preserve, process, analyze, review, report on, and produce relevant electronic data. We leverage leading technology solutions and proven, replicable processes and methodologies to address discovery challenges involving a broad range of email and other electronic information stores, including the kinds of non-traditional and proprietary forms of data that are often vital to fully complying with discovery requests.  We collaborate with our clients to provide comprehensive, transparent eDiscovery solutions that can be backed up by declarations, affidavits, and expert testimony. Our credentialed professionals leverage decades of experience relating to compliance, cybersecurity risk, disputes, investigations, and risk management to optimize the eDiscovery process. They include electronic discovery industry experts, certified digital forensics examiners, investigators, former IT auditors, former law enforcement officers, and information security experts.

Our professionals are experienced in assisting companies respond to bribery and corruption allegations and investigations. CRA’s experience includes most industries and extends to numerous jurisdictions around the globe.

High stakes and complex litigation often require additional investigative services to bolster counsel’s legal strategy. CRA is well-versed in assisting counsel with substantiating allegations, investigating opposing parties and key witnesses, and analyzing data from books and records and electronic communications. When the need arises, we can also provide expert testimony for a wide range of industries and sectors.

Most individuals engaging in fraudulent or corrupt activities are savvy enough to avoid communicating on corporate channels such as email; however, CRA’s sophisticated social media analytics software allows our team to identify relationships between individuals and entities on platforms such as Facebook that may not otherwise be uncovered. The evidence of these relationships may prove pivotal in fraud and corruption matters, FCPA investigations, asset searches, theft of trade secrets cases and other litigation matters.

Businesses have the potential to be impacted by exposures in enterprise systems due to software failures and uncharacteristic outputs. Determining how these system vulnerabilities occur and providing data-driven incident responses is imperative. Our experts can assist an organization with systems investigations by leading the review of any exploitations and mitigating incident effects. Our team helps businesses perform system code reviews, document IT infrastructure, and conduct data flow assessments.

CRA simplifies the complexities of big data. We assist our clients with analyzing electronically stored data sources that are often key to resolving litigation, responding to regulatory inquiries, or conducting investigations.  This includes preserving, analyzing, reviewing, and reporting on electronic data from complex structured data sources. Our team is noted for leveraging advanced analytical techniques and advanced visualization tools while working with forensic investigators, finance professionals, economists, industry leaders, and other subject matter experts to navigate the challenges of extracting and manipulating data from active or decommissioned accounting, and HR and transactional databases in order to confirm and leverage critical data relationships.