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IBIS provides the most accurate and timely, situation specific, real world investigations and analysis to enable its clients to make informed decisions.
IBIS has a very broad base of clients, not only in North America but around the world. Our clients range from law firms to accountants, to corporations, to government institutions, to NGOs, to private investors.
IBIS client diversity has given IBIS an unrivaled knowledge of the inner workings of many types of industries and institutions, as well as the courts and legal systems in various countries and societies. This enables IBIS to determine the best methods to obtain the information needed by our clients in a manner in which it can be applied successfully.
However, we are constantly learning about new and different client operations and issues through experience, ongoing training for IBIS people, trade and professional associations and networking groups, and from our resource personnel in a myriad of professions.
Surveillance is used to provide information on theft of product or time, employee travel times and stops, and activity while on compensation. Our surveillance teams are discreet but effective. Digital video or photographs can be transmitted to you from anywhere in the world. Copies are stored in IBIS Secure Evidence Storage.
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Interviews and properly obtained statements including so called “KGB” statements are taken in fraud, criminal and civil litigation cases.
Due Diligence Our focus is to develop information to enable our client to make decisions concerning the level of risk. We understand that if that decision is later questioned, it is vital to establish that that everything was done to make the decision as informed as possible.
Knowing the true state of affairs on foreign agents, customers, suppliers, employees or prospective hires or potential business partners is an essential fact of life in the 21st century!
We encourage clients to e-mail or telephone us with “Can IBIS do …?”, or “I have this problem” questions. New, non-corporate clients are requested to contact us through their accountant or attorney.
IBIS Investigations are always conducted In a Lawful manner.
We do not:
Chase cars on sidewalks, bribe maids to get into hotel rooms, (they tell anyway), break into homes or offices, tap phones, plant bugs, steal documents, engage in shootouts in the street, trespass, commit identity theft, break the law or violate people’s rights.
We do:
Gather relevant evidence in a form the client can use, while keeping IBIS out of trouble; keeping the client out of trouble and doing the best possible job for the client.
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IBIS investigates Fraud - thousands of frauds of every conceivable type. Our cases have ranged from the United Nations Oil for Food Fraud, (the largest fraud in the history of the planet); to frauds on minority shareholders in private companies to Tender and Bid rigging; to collusion among branch plant employees, to purchasing managers setting up “Ghost” suppliers to line their pockets, to bank loans officers writing tombstones, to shipping department fraud, to phantom production runs.
IBIS investigates, without bias, spin or favor, to determine if losses are the result of fraud, theft or corruption; or are due to wasteful business practices, policy violations, or lack of controls.
IBIS skilled, experienced investigators
include Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE’s) and investigators from police, military and intelligence backgrounds. People with diverse expertise and complimentary skill sets get the answers, no matter what the questions may be. We answer questions about people, their activities, lifestyles and associates, or about places, occurrences or things. We investigate fraud in the US, Canada, and virtually everywhere else from Iraq to Iceland to Italy to China and the CIS.
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An IBIS Operations Audit ™, the tool of using undercover investigators, provides a discreet, legal, but not-alerting picture of who are the good guys, who are the bad guys, how crimes, violations of policy, or safety procedure violations are committed.
After the investigation:
IBIS provides a comprehensive report with recommendations for accountability procedures and deterrent controls.
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Accident Benefit Claims: IBIS investigators and teams specializing in video surveillance, provide accurate documented reports supported by State-of-the-Art video of the subject, suitable for presentation in Court.
Doubtful Death Claims: Our investigators use their skills in both overt interviews and covert inquiries on these challenging cases, from Mississauga to Nigeria.
Missing Yacht, Aircraft and Vehicle Recovery: We have had significant success in cracking car theft rings worldwide. IBIS investigators in Accra have successfully located numerous missing aircraft in sub-Saharan Africa. Our Toronto and our Washington offices have recovered vehicles, yachts, aircraft and a racehorse.
Piracy and Barratry Investigations and Vessel Recovery: We have gathered irrefutable evidence that certain purported sinkings and piracy claims were actually insurance fraud.
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Bond Claim Investigations: Our Senior investigators routinely work on these interesting claims and on other "Due Diligence" investigations.
Kidnap and Extortion Cases: IBIS has successfully recovered abducted children and abducted executives in Canada, Portugal, The Gulf, Mexico and various other countries. IBIS works with the insurer, family, employer and international legal teams. IBIS negotiation skills enable abductees to be safely and discreetly recovered.
Litigation Support: Surveillance, Background Checks, Event Scene Images and Event Reconstruction, KGB interviews, Mareva Injunctions, Anton Pilar Orders, (where jurisdictionally appropriate) are all part of IBIS Insurance Litigation Support Service.
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An IBIS world-wide solution
The true state of affairs means the actual situation on the ground - not internet searches and a rehash of newspaper reports. The internet is a great tool and, of course we use it; but it is foolhardy to bet the business, (or your career), solely on electronic information generated in a cubicle thousands of miles away from the action.
To get the right answers you need to ask the right questions. This means you must have people on scene, to have real time access to the individual or the situation, to communicate in the language of the interviewee in the appropriate time zone. IBIS operatives always speak the language(s) in their areas of operations. We provide information, on-location interviews and background checks to assist you make informed decisions.
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Corporate due diligence includes an in-depth credibility assessment of the companies concerned, their principals and other key executives.
Frequent areas of inquiry include:
- Business, corporate histories and lifestyles of the companies
- Business, personal history and lifestyle of the principal(s)
- Civil and criminal litigation
- Current corporate operations and operating history
- Discreet inquiries concerning known business and personal associations
- Discreet Inquiries concerning current and former business partners
- Human resources and personnel
- Project track records
- Legal, regulatory and environmental issues in their areas of operation
- Reputation in the community
- Assets
Inquiries are done “on-the-ground” in the subject’s areas of operation. IBIS confidential sources and resources in those areas are utilized. Naturally all contacts with regulatory agencies, law enforcement, other civil authorities, industry, financial sources and so forth are kept as discreet as possible to avoid identification of our client.
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Accurately determining the location of the actual assets owned or controlled by the parties, together with realistic valuation for recovery, is vital to every action for recovery.
We do not guess and we do not break laws.
IBIS obtains and documents information that can be used as a foundation to obtain necessary evidence, or if appropriate, information which can be directly presented as evidence in recovery proceedings.
IBIS uses various methods to determine and document assets, including:
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- Identification of the probable location(s) of the assets;
- “Broad Spectrum” local database searches where available;
- Local research and investigations, including, where appropriate,
discreet interviews with persons who have knowledge
regarding
the subject’s activities, associates habits and assets;
- Lifestyle surveillance and assessment of the subject’s principals;
- Lifestyle surveillance and assessment of the subject’s local agents;
- Surveillance and assessment of subject company premises;
- Identification of intact and converted assets;
IBIS then documents banking and asset recovery procedures in the significant domestic and foreign or off-shore locations, liaises with the local civil authorities and provides assistance with legally freezing, seizing and recovering the assets.
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Anyone who has worked with a branch plant or branch office knows that it is not easy. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
IBIS people have been working with Head Offices and Branch plants since 1976.
Sometimes, our work has resulted in branch plant employees or managers being sued and/or arrested.
Sometimes, we have worked with the branch plant to increase resources, clear bottlenecks and improve profitability.
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Always, we have left our clients with positive feedback and assistance so the flaws in the system can be fixed.
Branch Plant Exploratory Services: A Security Survey, some discreet observations with video, and/or an IBIS Operations Audit™ provides an accurate “snapshot” of what is happening at the Plant, the good, the bad and the ugly, with recommendations for resolving current issues and preventing future problems.
Branch Plant Audit Services: IBIS personnel can perform a compliance audit your Branch Plant on location and report on whether or not they are in compliance with your policies and procedures.
IBIS Computer Forensics technicians can audit your computer systems to assist in setting your individual company standards and disaster recovery plans.
If you have a nagging feeling about a branch plant, let’s discuss it. The object is for all plants to be profitable, and the employees happy and motivated.
IBIS TIP:
Corporate Head Office must always have a set of working branch plant keys, the current alarm codes, and the super-user passwords to the Branch Plant computers.
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IBIS Operations Audits™ are a much enhanced and a greatly superior version of what used to be called an “undercover investigation”.
IBIS Operations Audits™ are done to a proprietary format, and address a myriad of concerns from theft and fraud, to company policy violations, to malingering, to infiltration of your work force by individuals with malicious intent, to supervision failure.
IBIS Operations Audits™ provide a “snapshot” and analysis of the company’s current operations, lifestyle, tone and morale from the vantage point of a line employee that is unavailable by any other method.
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IBIS Operations Audits™ are designed to determine what is really taking place without impacting on or influencing events in any way, the operatives performing the Audit work in secret. Operatives are selected on the basis of
their being able to fit in to the workplace without arousing suspicion, to perform their workplace job, and to accurately report on the events and activities they observe.
If there are criminal activities, IBIS, (in consultation with the client), can involve the IBIS General Investigation Section, the local police or other authorities to investigate, apprehend the perpetrators and lay charges as appropriate.
Where conduct breaches policy, IBIS will, at the conclusion of the project, assist the client to implement controls that make the undesirable conduct much less likely to occur in the future.
At the end of the Audit the operative leaves in the normal course of the client’s business and no one, except IBIS and the client, ever knows the IBIS Operations Audit™ was contemplated, was underway or has taken place.
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IBIS has hundreds of Brand Names and thousands of items in its evidence lockers or scheduled for destruction.
Production of counterfeit or diverted products has become more than a cottage industry. It is burgeoning multi-national business, safer than drug trafficking, more profitable than arms, and with no money laundering problems.
Few Security and Brand Protection departments are tasked with directly attacking and destroying the source of the counterfeit product. They eke out only enough budget to arrest street vendors and seize a few dozen knock-offs while leaving the off shore factories; importers of container loads; and warehouses full of goods, strictly alone.
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If you want to protect your brand, you must attack the source and cut off the head, not just occasionally irritate a few street vendors.
IBIS Anti Counterfeit Task Force
- Identifies the manufacturers and distributors wherever they are in the world;
- Gathers evidence in a form suitable for use in court in the foreign jurisdiction;
- Gathers evidence for use in the courts in our client’s marketing areas so as to prevent or hinder the continued sale of the
counterfeit
products;
- Liaises with, assists and motivates the foreign civil authority, the police and attorneys in each jurisdiction;
- Plans, orchestrates and executes the apprehension, seizure of equipment and seizure of assets;
- Implements the freezing of the manufacturer's corporate and personal assets and bank accounts by way of civil recovery
for our client's
damages.
Your marketing and your profits are on the side of the counterfeiter. As a legitimate manufacturer, you need IBIS today!
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From the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia to the Fruit Estates of the Caribbean, from the cattle ranches of South America to the farms of Central Africa to the Orchid cultivation areas of South East Asia, IBIS Corporation is a world leader in the international battle against Praedial Larceny.
IBIS Corporation knows the devastation that Praedial Larceny gangs can cause to individual farmers, to an entire industry and to the economy of a region or an entire country.
IBIS understands that often the gangs are well organized and have powerful, organized, international criminal support.
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To combat this growing worldwide problem, IBIS has proprietary praedial larceny countermeasures plans which are designed to strike at the heart of the problem, and not only arrest the low level thieves who are the foot soldiers, but to arrest and seize the assets of the wealthy criminals who make their living preying on farmers and fruit growers.
IBIS assistance is designed to be smoothly integrated into our agricultural client's existing security plans and to augment measures already in place.
Depending upon the specific circumstances IBIS will field specially trained security personnel to provide the entire security function, or to assist and train our client's existing security force.
In many situations IBIS support personnel will put in place a variety of covert state-of-the-art electronic personnel detection devices, and other technical aids. IBIS "air operations" use every conceivable mode of transport from fixed wing to rotary wing, to ultra lights to UAV’S to capture the thieves.
Simultaneously, other IBIS personnel gather intelligence concerning the identities of the bosses and corporate entities profiting from the larceny, identify their methods and income streams, and using both civil and criminal remedies reduce the problem to insignificant controllable levels.
If your agriculture based company or your region or country is suffering from the effects of Praedial Larceny contact us. We would be happy to discuss how we can help.
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IBIS Computer Forensics Specialists Provide “Information Superiority”. In a recent case involving a manufacturer who claims that they provide “Combat Air Superiority Fighter Aircraft” IBIS was told our examination of the perpetrator’s computers provided our client “Combat Information Superiority.”
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In fraud and influence peddling investigations, critical data can often be found in computer files and E-mails of the perpetrators.
In many cases the attempts to erase the damming evidence data only makes it easier for an IBIS specialist to identify the information.
IBIS technicians are highly skilled and experienced forensic engineers who can find a needle in the haystack and recreate critical events.
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IBIS experts are available to give expert testimony. We can prepare and present our forensic findings to the judge, the jury, foreign bank regulators or others at your direction to help you win your case.
IBIS custom computer forensic analysis answers the critical questions concerning computer data surrounding the issues in your case.
- State-of-the-art proprietary mirror imaging to preserve the integrity of evidence;
- Data Mining to locate crucial evidence;
- Secure chain-of-custody procedures to ensure the admissibility of the resulting evidence;
- Litigation Support, document management and evidence preparation to assist counsel to present and win your case.
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IBIS provides complete Document Management Services for entities involved in litigation.
IBIS will act for either party, or as a neutral document repository and document manager for both parties and the court.
In some case an accounting firm is appointed as custodian and IBIS acts under the custodians auspices.
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- IBIS acts as an unbiased secure document repository and keeps all electronic and paper documents secure and secret.
- Under consent, or court order, IBIS acquires the hard drives, portable media and paper, organizes and catalogs the
documents,
performs such comprehensive searches as are from time to time required, applies filters as agreed by the
parties or ordered by the court
and supplies electronic or paper documents to either or both parties as directed.
- IBIS can also set up separate secure document databases for the parties to access on line in doing their preparation, so
that each party
can search the specific data and documents to which they are entitled.
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