Corporate Investigation Thuringia | Corporate Investigators Erfurt

The expert and IHK-certified corporate investigators of Kurtz Detective Agency Erfurt and Thuringia are your skilled contacts for uncovering economic crimes committed by employees, competitors or third parties, for creditworthiness checks of potential business partners, for tracing debtors who have moved without notice (including cross-border), for candidate screening, or for court-admissible investigation of violations of competition law: +49 361 2243 0020.

Service instead of Industry | Areas of Responsibility of our Corporate Investigators from Erfurt

Until the 1990s, Erfurt was primarily an industrial location, but the focus of the economy has shifted following reunification: today, the service sector dominates in Erfurt and central Thuringia, with only a few companies remaining in machinery and plant engineering. Many companies have also specialised in microelectronics and related industries; additionally, since the beginning of the millennium, Erfurt has grown into a logistics hub (including TNT, Schenker). The criminal challenges that companies face have changed little: industrial espionage occurs both in manufacturing and in the service sector. Whether production and design plans or, particularly in logistics, customer and supplier data are stolen – the financial damage for each affected company is enormous, sometimes even threatening its existence. Added to this are cases initiated by competitor companies, such as bribery, unfair competition, or sabotage.

 

Our specialised detectives in Erfurt and Thuringia support you not only in the event of damage, but also proactively, to review and optimise your company’s security measures and, for example, to raise awareness among your personnel regarding the handling of company data. We are happy to provide non-binding information about case- and company-specific options. Please use our contact form, call us, or send an e-mail to kontakt@kurtz-detektei-erfurt.de.

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The areas of responsibility of our Thuringian corporate investigators are diverse; investigating insurance fraud is also part of their work.

Existential Anxiety, Dissatisfaction, Desire for Luxury – Numerous Causes of Economic Crime

In December 2015, 8,259 people (7.6 per cent) were registered as seeking work in Erfurt, while in all of Thuringia the figure was 85,212 (6.8 per cent). Both the capital and the state were thus above the national average of 6.0 per cent for the same month. The rising numbers of economic crime in general, and burglary in particular, may also be linked to unemployment. Residential burglaries are further complicated by falling clearance rates. However, low income is not the only cause of crime against companies; intentional harm to a company or maintaining an elevated lifestyle can also be triggers.

 

In addition to offences committed by third parties, crimes committed by employees must be considered: payroll fraud, expense claim fraud, warehouse and transport crime, bribery, data theft, and numerous other employee offences account for around half of all economic losses nationwide. These offences are independent of income or position: perpetrators are found across all salary levels, in both skilled trades and management. Accordingly, providing court-admissible proof of an offence and identifying the perpetrator requires a differentiated approach. Kurtz Corporate Investigation Erfurt is happy to advise you on this in a personal consultation at +49 361 2243 0020.