Referenced in our Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2003

Corporate Fraud Investigation Link Chart

Recently, a large accounting firm used VisuaLinks in a large-scale corporate fraud investigation to identify multiple employees/vendors sharing one or more bank accounts. After applying VisuaLinks to the database, Network Miner was used to expose patterns within the Employee/Bank and Account/Vendor relationships. Over 2,500 results were generated. Upon review of the largest network (27 objects), it was determined that 21 employees were being paid into the same account and that two employees were being paid as vendors

According to one of the senior forensic analysts working the investigation, "We would not have caught this pattern without being able to visualize the network. Our existing analytical methods only produce tables and are focused on only employee/vendor combinations and not situations where numerous employees shared the same bank account. VisuaLinks has proven to be a great addition to our suite of analytical tools."