Business
Corporate Investigation Services in India
Most businesses that call us already know roughly what is happening. What they do not have is anything they could act on without exposing themselves to a wrongful termination claim or tipping off the people involved.
The four patterns behind most internal loss
Internal fraud in Indian SMEs is rarely sophisticated. In our casework it concentrates in four places: procurement, where a vendor is related to someone inside and bills in full while short-supplying; dispatch and inventory, where goods leave against falsified paperwork; sales and collections, where cash is retained or discounts are granted off the books; and a parallel business run by an employee using the firm's customers, suppliers or equipment.
The reason these persist is not that they are hard to detect but that detecting them requires someone outside the reporting line to look. By the time a discrepancy reaches the accounts, it has usually been reconciled by the person responsible for it.
Service scope
What this service covers
Everything below is agreed in writing before any work starts.
What we can establish
- Whether a vendor entity is real: registered status, operating premises, directors and related-party links
- Undisclosed business interests, directorships or shareholdings held by employees
- Relationships between staff and counterparties that were never declared
- Movement of goods, observed independently of internal paperwork
- Whether a stated workplace, warehouse or site operates as represented
- Litigation, defaults and adverse record on a counterparty
- Background verification on candidates and existing staff in positions of trust
- Documented findings structured for an HR process or a police complaint
What you receive
- A documented findings report
- Entity, director and related-party analysis
- Observation records of the process involved
- Background findings on the staff concerned
- Practical options with commercial pros and cons
- A confidential briefing, director level only
For overseas companies
Due diligence in India for overseas companies and investors
Foreign buyers, importers and investors usually meet an Indian counterparty through a trade fair, a platform or a video call. The documents look right. What they cannot see from abroad is whether the business behind them is what it says.
We combine public-record work — Ministry of Corporate Affairs filings, directors and their other companies, charges registered against the company, GST registration status and court cases — with what only a visit shows: whether the registered office is a working premises, whether the factory runs, and how the business is regarded in its own trade.
Standard for an overseas client
- MCA filings, directors and related companies
- GST registration status, and a name match with the invoices
- Litigation and recovery suits in Indian courts
- An unannounced premises or factory visit
- Reputation enquiries with other suppliers and buyers
- A report in English, structured for your compliance file
Method
How this service runs
Confidential briefing
Usually with a director or proprietor only. We do not brief through a manager who may be inside the issue.
Scoping the loss
Narrowing the question from "money is going missing" to a specific, checkable hypothesis. This single step is usually what turns a six-month problem into a three-week enquiry.
Entity and people checks
Counterparty verification, directorship and related-party analysis, and background checks on the staff with authority over the process.
Independent observation
Watching the physical process — inward, dispatch, delivery — without relying on internal records.
Findings and options
A documented report and a frank discussion of options, including when the commercially sensible route is recovery and exit rather than prosecution.
What it costs and how long it takes
₹45,000 – ₹3,00,000+ depending on the number of entities and sites, and whether observation is required.
Your written quote is fixed after a free scoping call, and it will not change based on what we find. If the budget available does not match what the case genuinely requires, we will tell you that rather than running an underscoped enquiry that cannot answer your question.
Where we run this service
Run by our investigators in every city listed and managed from our Jaipur head office.
Living outside India? See NRI support.
FAQs
Questions about corporate investigation
Not if it is scoped properly. Counterparty and record checks happen entirely outside your premises. Where observation inside operations is needed, we agree a cover with you first. The most common source of a leak is internal — which is why we brief at proprietor or director level only.
Our report gives you documented findings; the employment decision and its process are matters for you and your employment lawyer. We structure findings so they can withstand scrutiny in a disciplinary process, and we are explicit about what is established versus inferred — because a dismissal built on inference is where wrongful termination claims come from.
Yes, and it is one of our most requested corporate services. Identity, address, education, employment history, directorship and conflict checks, litigation, and reference verification — typically four to eight working days. See background verification.
Entity status and filings, directors and shareholding, whether operations match what is represented, premises and scale, litigation and default history, trade reputation with suppliers and customers, and the background of the principals. We will tell you clearly which financial claims can only be verified through audited disclosure rather than external enquiry.
Yes. The report goes only to the person who engaged us, through the channel they specify. We will not discuss the matter with anyone else at the company, including senior staff, without your written instruction.
Start with a free scoping call
Describe the situation in a few lines. You will get an honest answer about whether it can be verified, what it would involve and what it would cost — before any commitment.