Billing Fraud on the Rhine

An interesting assignment from the construction industry recently reached the detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Cologne: A long-standing employee and co-shareholder of a nationally operating construction company was suspected of stealing assets belonging to the client, using the company vehicle for private journeys, siphoning off fuel and submitting false working hours.

The suspicions were so concrete that the client was solely concerned with the employee’s summary dismissal. For the corporate investigators of Kurtz Investigations Cologne, the fastest, most cost-effective and cleanest approach appeared to be the surveillance of the current construction site on the Rhine in order to document the times during which the target person actually carried out paid work. A comparison of the working hours documented by our Cologne detectives with the target person’s timesheets revealed significant discrepancies and resulted in the employee’s summary dismissal. Whether the misappropriated assets will be reimbursed will be decided in the subsequent court proceedings.