Preserve Before Confront
Evidence and access records secured before anyone is confronted, because confrontation moves money and deletes records.
Financial fraud against a business rarely announces itself. It appears as a reconciliation that will not balance, a supplier chasing an invoice that was already paid, or a payment that reached an account nobody can identify.
Dubai Legal Expert helps businesses across the UAE respond to financial fraud, combining immediate recovery action with the investigation and controls needed to establish what happened and stop it continuing.
The response has to do three things at once. Stop the loss, preserve the evidence, and secure whatever funds can still be reached. Doing them in the wrong order is common, and it usually costs the recovery.
Businesses frequently begin by confronting the suspected individual or contacting the receiving bank directly. Both alert the other side, and funds move within hours. The correct sequence starts with preservation and attachment.
Contact UsSteps to stop ongoing losses and preserve records, systems and access logs before evidence is altered.
Urgent applications to freeze the receiving accounts and any assets that can be identified.
Independent accounting and transaction analysis to establish the mechanism, the scale and the parties involved.
Complaints to the authorities alongside civil proceedings to recover the loss.
Payment authorisation, verification and reconciliation controls implemented to prevent recurrence.
Evidence and access records secured before anyone is confronted, because confrontation moves money and deletes records.
Freeze applications prepared immediately on the receiving accounts that can be identified.
Transaction analysis establishing the mechanism, the total exposure and every party who received funds.
Structured written engagement with the banks involved rather than informal phone calls that achieve nothing.
Claims against everyone who received the funds, not only the person who took them.
Payment authorisation and verification controls redesigned so the same route cannot be used again.
The instinct on discovering internal or payment fraud is to confront the person responsible. It is understandable and it is usually the single most damaging step available, because it triggers the immediate movement of funds and the deletion of records and messages.
We ask clients to do nothing until the preservation and attachment steps are ready. Once systems access is logged, records are secured and the freeze application is filed, confrontation can proceed from a position of strength rather than warning.
Preserve, freeze, investigate, then recover.
We establish what was lost, through which route, and what immediate steps can be taken today.
Systems, access logs, records and communications are secured before anything can be altered or deleted.
Freeze applications are filed on the receiving accounts and any identifiable assets.
Independent accounting and transaction analysis establishes the mechanism, scale and parties involved.
Complaints are filed and civil claims commenced against the perpetrators and recipients.
Payment and authorisation controls are rebuilt to close the route that was used.
We were about to confront the employee. Being told to wait until the freeze was filed is the reason we recovered anything.
The forensic analysis found two more affected accounts we had not identified ourselves.
Preserve the evidence and take advice before confronting anyone, because confrontation triggers the movement of funds and the deletion of records.
Sometimes, particularly where the receiving account can be identified and frozen quickly. Prospects fall sharply with delay.
A criminal complaint is usually appropriate and can produce investigative steps a private party cannot take, and it works alongside civil recovery.
That depends on how the payment was authorised and what verification failures occurred, and it is assessed on the specific facts.
Yes. Recipients of fraud proceeds can be pursued, which is often more productive than pursuing the individual alone.
Through payment authorisation limits, supplier verification procedures and reconciliation controls, which we implement as part of the response.
Do not confront anyone before you have taken advice. Preservation comes first. The first consultation is free.
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