With the impact of fraud on UK businesses now being measured in tens of billions of pounds it is more important than ever to be able to call upon a professional fraud investigation resource.

Deloitte’s Fraud Advisory & Investigations team is drawn from professionals with a variety of backgrounds in accounting, industry and law enforcement. Deloitte’s fraud investigators have decades of experience in conducting investigations in a variety of locations and across a wide range of industries. Recent assignments have included investigating accounting irregularities, tax evasion, theft, bribery and corruption, intellectual property infringements and breaches of national, international and commercial regulations.

We offer both preventative and detective solutions. As well as conducting financial investigations and tracing assets we are able to offer training in fraud awareness, fraud risk management and business ethics and to provide assistance in the development of policies and procedures for responses to fraud, whistle-blowing hotlines and good practice.

An integrated, global approach

Our approach is to assign your case to an experienced fraud investigator, who will build a multi-disciplinary and multi jurisdictional team specifically created to your requirements. Our teams are often composed of professionals from our Forensic Technology and Business Intelligence Services teams as well as accountants, law-enforcement specialists and financial investigators. As a Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu member firm, we have access to a global taskforce of fraud investigators to provide you with local support wherever your organisation is affected.

Gathering evidence

Our fraud investigations are carried out to the highest evidential standards. Our fraud investigators are experienced in interviewing suspects and witnesses and are used to working within the confines of the standards imposed by criminal codes including the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. Our fraud investigators are able to preserve chains of custody and evidence and to covertly recover evidence including gathering and securing sensitive data electronically so as to preserve its evidential integrity.

Recovering assets and managing outcomes

Deloitte’s fraud investigations are about more than simply identifying the culprit or cause. Our investigators have substantial experience of giving evidence in court and at tribunals. We are able to assist in the tracing and retrieval of illicit assets and to help you improve your systems or controls to prevent similar incidents reoccurring.