PROTECTAS
DETECTIVE & SECURITY SERVICES
PROTECTAS Business and Private Investigation Agency
Reliable protection for business and private interests.
Effective protection requires the precise coordination of practical experience in sensitive areas, modern technology, and economic efficiency. As an owner-managed company, absolute discretion and the necessary flexibility are paramount.
Private individuals & family offices
Protect your privacy and gain absolute certainty in sensitive life situations.
Regain your personal quality of life and security. Through protection concepts for your property and absolutely discreet investigations in your private life, you create clarity where uncertainty exists.
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Threats, blackmail & discreet investigation: Immediate help and evidence gathering if you are threatened, blackmailed, or systematically harassed in your private life. For example, threats to disclose intimate details to partners, family, friends, or employers, cybersextortion, etc.
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Infidelity & Partnership: Discreet determination of the facts in cases of justified suspicion of misconduct in a partnership or marriage.
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Maintenance and custody disputes: Proof of undisclosed income or cohabitation (for the adjustment of maintenance) as well as documentation of breaches of duty in custody matters.
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Inheritance matters: Tracing rightful heirs and investigating cases where estate assets have been embezzled.
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Person search and address tracing: Locating debtors who have gone into hiding, missing persons or witnesses.
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International child abduction cases: For example, when a parent flees with the child across the border to Eastern Europe or the Mediterranean region.
Whether the conditions for a reimbursement of costs under Section 273 of the Austrian Civil Code (ABGB) are met depends on the circumstances of your case and will ultimately be decided by the competent court.
Business, Law Firms & Institutions
Secure your business assets and gain process-critical clarity.
Protect your company from financial losses or strengthen your legal position with facts. You will receive precise, discreet fact-finding tailored exactly to your business and legal requirements. This ensures well-informed decisions and complete freedom of action for your company or law firm.
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Extortion, coercion & sabotage: When your company, management or employees are put under pressure, or someone deliberately destroys company assets or the company's reputation.
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Employee crime: Investigation of wage continuation fraud (feigned sick leave), theft in the workplace, embezzlement of company property, expense fraud or illegal undeclared work.
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Due diligence review : Integrity checks of partnerships in international joint ventures or the filling of security-critical key positions ("Pre-Litigation Intelligence" screening).
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Industrial espionage & betrayal of secrets: When sensitive customer data, internal plans or company secrets are passed on to the competition.
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Competition violations: Evidence of illegal solicitation of customers or staff as well as violations of the post-contractual non-compete clause.
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Debtor & address search: Tracking down business partners, witnesses or debtors who have gone into hiding, as well as locating misappropriated assets.
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Product piracy: Identifying networks that infringe your trademark rights or distribute counterfeit goods.
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Supply chain responsibility (EU Supply Chain Directive / CSDDD): We document, through discreet observation, video recordings and on-site interviews (e.g. in Eastern Europe or Asia), whether human rights are violated, illegal child labor takes place or massive environmental offenses occur, and whether the legal ESG criteria are actually being met or whether the supplier is deceiving the company with forged certificates.
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Pre-audit site monitoring: General contractors are liable under civil and criminal law for the misconduct of their sub-subcontractors (don't risk a construction stoppage). We conduct covert site checks: Who is really working there? Are their IDs genuine? Do the subcontractors' documents match their reports?
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Cyber investigator specializing in crypto ransomware and extortion: Affected SMEs pay the demanded ransoms in Bitcoin due to cyber sabotage. We conduct on-chain and off-chain investigations for you in cooperation with partner companies.
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Legal certainty & compliance
1. GDPR & Data Protection Compliance
Every investigation begins with an examination of the legal basis. We consistently work on the basis of a sound balancing of interests (pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR) and a legitimate interest . Our documents are secured using a document management system (DMS).
2. Statutory duty of confidentiality
As a state-licensed company, we are subject to strict confidentiality obligations in accordance with Section 130 Paragraph 5 of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO).
3. Evidence preservation in accordance with the Supreme Court rulings
We ensure that investigations and surveillance are conducted in accordance with the law and guarantee our clients that evidence is gathered legally and is admissible in court. The legal basis: initial suspicion and proportionality .
4. Certainty creates freedom of action.
Hiring our detective agency does not automatically mean going to court. Primarily, you are purchasing facts, security, and clarity. Whether you use these facts to seek an amicable solution, refute suspicions, or, if necessary, choose to go to court, remains entirely your free and entrepreneurial decision.