Monitoring of Suspicious Employees | Surveillance

A number of well-known Frankfurt universities, universities of applied sciences and institutes conduct nationally and internationally significant research. The largest educational institutions in the city are Goethe University and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. Above all, Goethe University relies on international contacts and, over the past decades, has invited more than 3,000 visiting professors as lecturers, including from China, the USA, Great Britain, Japan, Canada, the Czech Republic and Israel. This research and technology potential is, unfortunately, constantly threatened by economic and industrial espionage.

 

Even though Frankfurt scores with a high proportion of employed people and an international education landscape, the share of disloyal employees in companies is higher than the national average. Continued remuneration fraud, industrial espionage and bribery are only some of the offences committed by employees to the detriment of their employers. Through the wide range of possibilities — employee observation, the legendary interviewing, workplace infiltration and several other investigative methods — the IHK-certified detective specialists of Kurtz Detective Agency Frankfurt are able to check the honesty of employees and freelancers discreetly and in a legally secure manner — tell us about your case: +49 69 1201 8431.

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Surveillance of Suspected Employees in Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main is one of the few large cities that does not have a high number of unemployed persons: approximately 524,000 employees subject to social security contributions and about 48,300 marginally employed persons are contrasted with roughly 25,190 unemployed. Some 80,000 people work at Frankfurt Airport alone, making it the largest employer in the economic location; a further approximately 74,600 people are employed in the insurance and financial sector. Around 336,000 commuters come to work in Frankfurt daily, while only about 77,000 residents leave the city for work (2013).

 

With over 44,000 companies, Frankfurt offers a wide range of jobs across many sectors. The service sector accounts for the highest share of employees, at 89.2 percent of the workforce. The average salary in Frankfurt is around €3,880, while employees in the hospitality sector, with about €2,200, belong to the lower income brackets. Our corporate investigators in Frankfurt have frequently found in the past that a low salary is not necessarily a trigger for criminality — on the contrary, the majority of suspects are found in well-paid and responsible positions in the technology sectors, financial service providers, research institutes or in industrial and craft enterprises. Field staff such as delivery drivers and account managers, but also cashiers and developers, increasingly become the subjects of Kurtz Corporate Investigation Services Frankfurt when there are suspicions such as expense fraud, industrial espionage, extortion and bribery, theft of company property and — universally — abuse of sick leave.

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Bull and Bear in front of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: In the financial centre of "Mainhattan", the discretion and loyalty of one’s own employees are of fundamental importance.

Discretion and Judicial Admissibility — Professional Investigations by Qualified Corporate Investigators

For many internal corporate offences, criminal charges and the handling of cases by the police and public prosecutor’s office are often counterproductive with regard to the interests of the already-damaged company. Professional fraudsters sometimes prefer to go to prison rather than agree a deal to repay the loss if they have been reported to the authorities. Discrediting details of their offences can leak to the public, risking reputational losses.

 

Our Frankfurt investigators work with the greatest discretion. Confrontation of a subject only takes place if our clients explicitly request it. The aim of our investigations in many cases is to document such a burden of proof that the only sensible way out for the perpetrator is an out-of-court settlement, which is favourable for the damaged company in terms of advance and often hard-to-recover court and legal costs. In a large number of cases, the experts of Kurtz Detective Agency Frankfurt obtain notarised acknowledgements of debt and acceptance of liability for compensation from their subjects. If you have questions about these aspects or would simply like to describe your case to us, we look forward to your telephone call (+49 69 1201 8431) or electronic contact (kontakt@kurtz-detektei-frankfurt.de).

Employee Checks in Frankfurt, Hesse and all Germany

In connection with suspected employees, Kurtz Investigations Frankfurt offers, among others, the following corporate investigations:

 

  • Observations in cases of suspected continued remuneration fraud

  • Observations in cases of suspected undeclared work

  • Investigations in cases of suspected breach of customer protection clauses

  • Investigations into goods losses

  • Verification of applicants

  • Observation in cases of suspected accounting fraud or expense fraud

  • Detektiv-Einschleusung

  • Observation in cases of suspected secondary or moonlighting employment (breach of competition clauses, non-compete agreements etc.)