Unlawful Acquisition of Benefits

Corporate fraud has many faces: evasion of services, falsified expense claims, credit card fraud, bribery or acceptance of bribes in public office, industrial espionage, to name just a few. One might think that in Frankfurt, where average income is significantly above the national average and most people are financially well-off, there would be less theft, deceit and fraud. Far from it: precisely where people live in abundance, envy and greed flourish, and the threshold for criminal behaviour is markedly lower.

Accordingly, fraudulent activities motivated by personal enrichment occur disproportionately often in Frankfurt. The investigators of Kurtz Corporate Investigations Frankfurt are experienced and trained in dealing with such offences: +49 69 1201 8431.

My House, My Car, My Boat – My Villa, My Ferrari, My Yacht

In the field of fraud alone, the number of offences rose sharply by 10.6 percent from 2013 to 2014, reaching 22,148 cases – 10.2 percent of all recorded crime in Frankfurt. A large proportion of these cases stems from white-collar crime, as our investigators in Frankfurt observe on an almost daily basis. To obtain an advantage, many offenders consider any means acceptable. Most do not regard themselves as criminals, nor the fraudulent act as a crime; they believe they are “only” using their social or family connections. Many are unaware that accepting and procuring benefits – not only in public office – are criminal offences and certainly not trivial matters.

The pursuit of greater wealth often appears to offenders as sufficient justification for the damage inflicted on others, which is conveniently ignored. Even when one already possesses everything needed for material happiness – house, car, boat – the free market always offers something bigger and seemingly better: a villa, a luxury car, a yacht. The craving for wealth and status symbols can become an obsession, driving individuals to unscrupulous criminal behaviour. When greed takes over, most offenders become careless. Excessive benefit-taking soon becomes impossible to conceal. The investigators of Kurtz Detective Agency Frankfurt gather the corresponding court-admissible evidence: kontakt@kurtz-detektei-frankfurt.de.

Nepotism | Favouritism

Unlawful acquisition of benefits is a cross-sector offence: it appears in retail, where an employee sells goods to family members at cost price and later attributes stock discrepancies to shoplifting; in warehouse logistics, where an employee supplies relatives with consumer electronics and reports the missing items to the employer as transport damage; on construction sites, where windows, roof tiles or sanitary fittings are allegedly stolen at night while the relatives’ house construction progresses smoothly; in the IT sector, where staff provide their clan with pirated copies of the latest software – the list of offences is virtually endless. In many of these cases, the employee does not gain directly but instead grants advantages to relatives, often expecting reciprocal benefits through the privileged contacts. This pattern of behaviour, known as nepotism, is widespread in the Main metropolis, and our Frankfurt investigators encounter it regularly.

The same approach is equally common in the form of favouritism, where the beneficiaries are friends, acquaintances or business partners. Regardless of the individual circumstances, the corporate investigators of Kurtz Investigations Frankfurt are your first point of contact for reviewing employee conduct: +49 69 1201 8431.