Employee theft collusion
When
briefed by a client from the steel supply industry about large quantities of
steel going missing from their business premises
BDI Investigators immediately determined that it had to be an inside job.
BDI Investigations was mandated to identify the culprits and to implement corrective action and to avoid further stock losses from taking place.
BDI commenced the investigation by interviewing employees and sub contractors of the company and statements were obtained. Contradictions were identified in the statements and from questions put to the employees and sub contractors and suspected perpetrators were identified.
A presentation was made to the client and it was suggested that polygraph tests be conducted on the suspected perpetrators.
All the suspected parties agreed to the polygraph tests being conducted on them. All the suspected perpetrators failed the tests and confirmed our suspicions.
Delivery vehicle tracking reports were perused and scrutinized, which identified suspicions points where the vehicles had stopped from long periods. These points were established as being various scrap yard businesses. Investigations at these scarp yards indentified the names of sub contractors , employed to transport steel to customers as being persons who had sold steel to the scrap yards and identified the steel as the same stock that had been found missing from the clients business premises.
The tracking reports were linked to trip sheets for evidential purposes and further linked the drivers of the relevant delivery vehicles with the details recorded at the scrap yards.
Further investigation was conducted on the suspected perpetrators which resulted in the confessions from all the suspected employee and sub contractors.
The investigation identified the operation of a syndicate between employees and subcontractors where extra steel was loaded onto delivery trucks operated by sub contractors who would then sell the steel to various scrap yards and share the profits from the sale between themselves and the employees. Disciplinary hearings were held for the employees, which resulted in the dismissal of all the guilty employees
Disciplinary hearings were held for staff employed as drivers for the sub contracting company which also resulted in dismissals for the guilty drivers.
The client further claimed a portion of the cost for the loss from the sub contracting transport company.
With the suspects removed from the system, stock losses were immediately reduced.
This is another successful investigation conducted by BDI Investigations.
BDI Investigators immediately determined that it had to be an inside job.
BDI Investigations was mandated to identify the culprits and to implement corrective action and to avoid further stock losses from taking place.
BDI commenced the investigation by interviewing employees and sub contractors of the company and statements were obtained. Contradictions were identified in the statements and from questions put to the employees and sub contractors and suspected perpetrators were identified.
A presentation was made to the client and it was suggested that polygraph tests be conducted on the suspected perpetrators.
All the suspected parties agreed to the polygraph tests being conducted on them. All the suspected perpetrators failed the tests and confirmed our suspicions.
Delivery vehicle tracking reports were perused and scrutinized, which identified suspicions points where the vehicles had stopped from long periods. These points were established as being various scrap yard businesses. Investigations at these scarp yards indentified the names of sub contractors , employed to transport steel to customers as being persons who had sold steel to the scrap yards and identified the steel as the same stock that had been found missing from the clients business premises.
The tracking reports were linked to trip sheets for evidential purposes and further linked the drivers of the relevant delivery vehicles with the details recorded at the scrap yards.
Further investigation was conducted on the suspected perpetrators which resulted in the confessions from all the suspected employee and sub contractors.
The investigation identified the operation of a syndicate between employees and subcontractors where extra steel was loaded onto delivery trucks operated by sub contractors who would then sell the steel to various scrap yards and share the profits from the sale between themselves and the employees. Disciplinary hearings were held for the employees, which resulted in the dismissal of all the guilty employees
Disciplinary hearings were held for staff employed as drivers for the sub contracting company which also resulted in dismissals for the guilty drivers.
The client further claimed a portion of the cost for the loss from the sub contracting transport company.
With the suspects removed from the system, stock losses were immediately reduced.
This is another successful investigation conducted by BDI Investigations.