When briefed by a client from the steel supply industry about large quantities of steel missing from their business premises CTW Investigators immediately determined that it had to be an inside job.
CTW Consulting was mandated to identify the culprits and to implement corrective action and to avoid further stock losses from taking place. The investigation commenced by interviewing the clients employees as well as employees from a sub contractor transport company and obtaining statements.
Contradictions were identified in the statements and from questions put to the clients employees, sub contractor employees, where after suspected perpetrators were identified.
A presentation was made to the client and it was suggested that polygraph tests be conducted on the suspected perpetrators.
The suspected parties agreed to the polygraph tests being conducted on them, all of whom failed the tests confirming our suspicions.
Vehicle tracking reports were perused and scrutinized, identifying suspicions points where the sub contractor transport companies delivery vehicles had stopped for long periods. These points were established as being various scrap yard businesses. Investigations at these scarp yards identified the names of sub contractor employees , employed to transport steel to customers as being persons who had sold steel to the scrap yards and identified the stolen steel.
The tracking reports were linked to trip sheets for evidential purposes and further linked the drivers of the relevant delivery vehicles with the details recorded at the scrap yards.
Further investigation was conducted on the suspected perpetrators which resulted in the confessions from all the suspected employee and
sub contractors.
The investigation identified the operation of a syndicate between our clients employees and sub contractor employees where extra steel was loaded onto delivery trucks driven by sub contractor employees who would then sell the steel to various scrap yards and share the profits from the sale between themselves and the clients employees. Disciplinary hearings were held for the clients employees resulting in the dismissal of all the guilty employees
Disciplinary hearings were held for employees of the sub contracting transport company resulting in dismissals of those employees.
The client further claimed a portion of the cost for the loss from the sub contracting transport company.
With the suspects removed from the system, stock losses were immediately reduced.
CTW Consulting was mandated to identify the culprits and to implement corrective action and to avoid further stock losses from taking place. The investigation commenced by interviewing the clients employees as well as employees from a sub contractor transport company and obtaining statements.
Contradictions were identified in the statements and from questions put to the clients employees, sub contractor employees, where after suspected perpetrators were identified.
A presentation was made to the client and it was suggested that polygraph tests be conducted on the suspected perpetrators.
The suspected parties agreed to the polygraph tests being conducted on them, all of whom failed the tests confirming our suspicions.
Vehicle tracking reports were perused and scrutinized, identifying suspicions points where the sub contractor transport companies delivery vehicles had stopped for long periods. These points were established as being various scrap yard businesses. Investigations at these scarp yards identified the names of sub contractor employees , employed to transport steel to customers as being persons who had sold steel to the scrap yards and identified the stolen steel.
The tracking reports were linked to trip sheets for evidential purposes and further linked the drivers of the relevant delivery vehicles with the details recorded at the scrap yards.
Further investigation was conducted on the suspected perpetrators which resulted in the confessions from all the suspected employee and
sub contractors.
The investigation identified the operation of a syndicate between our clients employees and sub contractor employees where extra steel was loaded onto delivery trucks driven by sub contractor employees who would then sell the steel to various scrap yards and share the profits from the sale between themselves and the clients employees. Disciplinary hearings were held for the clients employees resulting in the dismissal of all the guilty employees
Disciplinary hearings were held for employees of the sub contracting transport company resulting in dismissals of those employees.
The client further claimed a portion of the cost for the loss from the sub contracting transport company.
With the suspects removed from the system, stock losses were immediately reduced.