IBRIC’s team of investigators have a variety of expertise and background in law enforcement, forensic accounting, surveillance, and private investigations. Our agents have the skills, discretion, and intellect to conduct lawful covert operations to provide our clients with the intelligence needed.
Private Investigations
On-the-ground Investigations and Solutions
Utilising discreet, on-the-ground investigation solutions are often required and necessary to our clients.
Our services include but not limited to;
• Physical site visits by our agents to the premises of a company in order to determine that the company is actually located at the address given and that the company is active and operating. Photographs are taken of the premises and company sign, and a detailed description of what the agents encountered at the location is provided to the client.
Insurance Fraud Investigations
IBRIC provides Insurance Fraud Investigation services to businesses, law firms and government agencies to investigate claims for medical, automotive, life, and general insurance policies. We help clients collect the necessary evidence and all related facts to determine whether the claim is legitimate or falsified.
Fraudulent and falsified claims amount to a considerable part of all claims received by insurers and cost billions of dollars globally every year. Our experts in Insurance Fraud Investigation are responsible for and highly successful in uncovering fraud. By gathering necessary evidence, deliberate insurance fraud, staged incidents or injuries can be unveiled.
Our investigators are fully trained to unravel multifaceted claims and deliver impartial analysis and investigative intelligence by gathering all the necessary information through witness statements and neighbourhood interviews using cognitive interview techniques, run factsheet verifications, cross reference all the information with the relevant authorities, obtain medical/police/government records as well as photographic evidence.
We are fully informed in local laws and we make sure all data we collect is fit for use, accurate, and lawfully obtained.
Brand and Intellectual Property Protection Services
IBRIC offers brand and intellectual property protection solutions to assist clients to maintain the reputation and quality of their brand and protect their investments and market share.
Counterfeiting of products, piracy, and intellectual property infringement is on the rise and costing businesses billions in revenue per year. We have the know-how and experience to help our clients effectively respond to those commit intellectual property crimes against them.
We have been engaged, together with our partners, in IP protection campaigns to protect the assets of internationally recognised brand names in pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, consumer, and other industrial markets.
Our brand and intellectual property protection solutions include;
• Trademark/copyright monitoring & watch notice services;
• Online brand protection solutions & reputation management;
• Identification of the perpetrators (test goods, purchases, factory visits, and surveillance);
• Mystery shopping services for customer experience, process compliance & audit;
• Geographical indication mark investigations;
• Infringed trademark, patent and design investigation;
• Intellectual property due diligence;
• Domain and trademarks acquisitions;
• Anti-Counterfeiting investigations;
• Factory and brand integrity auditing;
• Investigate black and grey market IP compromises in various industries (including apparel, consumables, electronics, and healthcare);
• Internal market monitoring /custom protection;
• Conduct / organise civil and criminal raids. We collect information on unlawful manufacturers and distributors of counterfeit products and along with the cooperation of local law enforcement, we proceed to interrupt and shut-down the illegal activities; and
• Online brand abuse investigations.