Referenced in our Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2003
Corporate Fraud Investigation
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."
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