Case Stud­ies

The Prob­lem

A client had invest­ed a sig­nif­i­cant sum of mon­ey in a gold deal through a busi­ness asso­ciate but the asso­ciate had prompt­ly dis­ap­peared, leav­ing the client to fear his mon­ey had been stolen and he had been caught up in a scam. The client want­ed us to find the busi­ness asso­ciate so the client could retrieve his money.

The Approach

MIT­MARK Intel­li­gence obtained rel­e­vant back­ground infor­ma­tion from the client, mapped out and rec­om­mend­ed cours­es of action to achieve the objec­tive, and agreed the scope of work. MIT­MARK Intelligence’s inves­ti­ga­tors and open source intel­li­gence ana­lysts, using a com­bi­na­tion of intel­li­gence capa­bil­i­ties and meth­ods, pro­duced a com­pre­hen­sive and insight­ful back­ground report on the sub­ject which includ­ed the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of var­i­ous failed busi­ness endeav­ours and activ­i­ties, and sug­gest­ed a high like­li­hood of fraud­u­lent behav­iour. Sev­er­al asso­ciates and over­seas con­nec­tions to the per­son of inter­est were traced and we were able to pro­vide the client with mul­ti­ple loca­tions to which the busi­ness asso­ciate was strong­ly linked and at which he might be found or fur­ther intel­li­gence could be gleaned.

The Out­come

The client was able to inter­cept the busi­ness asso­ciate over­seas and ini­ti­ate legal pro­ceed­ings to recov­er his invest­ment, sup­port­ed by MITMARK’s Intel­li­gence inves­ti­ga­tion report and intel­li­gence. In addi­tion, MIT­MARK pro­vid­ed the client with advice in rela­tion to the val­ue of con­duct­ing Due Dili­gence and back­ground checks pri­or to busi­ness ven­tures and aware­ness of poten­tial warn­ings and indi­ca­tors to remain cog­nisant of.