Corporate Compliance and Conformity

11 Corporate Internal Investigations

DOI: 10.4324/9781003379249-14

When there is suspicion of financial misconduct and crime in public and private organizations, organizations tend to hire corporate investigators to conduct fraud examinations. Fraud examinations by corporate investigators are a form of alternative policing where corporate investigators rather than police detectives work to establish facts in contractual relationships with client organizations that are requesting answers. Corporate investigators normally document their work in fraud examination reports that usually are kept secret for various reasons. The secrecy is a problem, since some reports tend to cause dramatic life events for individuals without any transparency of ...