Employee vetting & investigation of criminal offenses

The damage caused by one's own staff is often underestimated. We investigate discreetly in cases of concrete suspicion of:

• Wage continuation fraud: Investigation of employees in cases of justified suspicion of feigned incapacity for work ("playing hooky").

• Time theft: Documentation of undeclared work or private secondary employment during regular working hours.

• Expense and billing fraud: Detection of manipulated logbooks, receipts or time sheets.

• Theft & Embezzlement: Investigation of stock shortages in warehouses, transport chains or cash register areas using covert investigations.

Competitive and economic espionage

Protecting your know-how secures your market advantage. We protect you from the leakage of sensitive data:

• Prevention & Awareness: Identification of information leaks and the outflow of trade secrets to competitors.

• Infiltration of investigators: Covert deployment of our special forces in your company to uncover internal sabotage or espionage directly at the source.

Compliance investigations & due diligence

Before you make important strategic decisions, we create absolute clarity about your business partners:

• Background checks: Verification of the creditworthiness, reputation and history of potential partners, investors or executives before signing a contract.

• Unlawful non-compete clauses: Investigating whether (former) employees or partners are violating contractually agreed non-compete clauses.

Brand and product piracy

Counterfeits damage your sales and your brand reputation. We intervene strategically:

• Supply chain tracing: Identification of manufacturers, intermediaries and distribution channels of counterfeit products.

• Test purchases & evidence gathering: Conducting covert purchases for legally sound documentation of trademark infringements.

Your strategic advantages with PROTECTAS

• Court-admissible evidence: Our reports, photo and video documentation, as well as the witness statements of our investigators, withstand legal scrutiny in criminal, labor and civil courts.

• Ex-government expertise: We utilize proven, tactical investigative methods from criminal practice that go far beyond standard knowledge.

• Absolute discretion (low-profile): Our investigations are conducted in such a way that neither your ongoing operations are disrupted nor unrest is created within the team or in the public eye.

Advantage of ex-government forces

Court-admissible documentation: Once the preparations are complete, the investigation is handed over to professionals. Upon completion of the investigation, you will receive a comprehensive, chronological investigation report, supported by photographic and video evidence as well as witness statements from the detectives involved.

The legal consequences and cost reimbursement

Cost recovery: According to the established case law of the Supreme Court (OGH) in Austria, you can claim the costs of hiring a private investigator from the convicted perpetrator as damages. The prerequisite is that the investigation was necessary for the investigation and that the suspicion was confirmed. This means that, if successful, the investigation often ultimately costs you nothing.

Your direct contact to company management

Call us or write to us. Your request will be received directly by management and treated with absolute confidentiality.

PROTECTAS Business Investigations & Security Services – Expertise from official practice.