Vetting of Employees and Freelancers

With almost 26,000 more or less serious property offences recorded in the Nuremberg region in 2023 — including only fraud, embezzlement, theft, robbery and burglary — the majority were at the expense of companies. Sooner or later, every entrepreneur is confronted with dishonest employees who must be identified and proven guilty with court-admissible evidence. If you therefore suspect one or more members of staff of taking a lax approach to work ethic and legal compliance, contact the detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Nuremberg on +49 911 3782 0154.

Theft by Employees | Property Offences Against Companies

In most cases the process is gradual: employees help themselves at irregular intervals, whether to office supplies, small quantities of goods in food retail, materials in construction companies, and so on. Particularly in retail, it is often difficult to attribute such losses to an employee, as a shoplifter may equally have taken the item. Retailers have therefore increasingly relied on video surveillance in recent years; however, this is only permitted to a very limited extent under the applicable legal provisions, and even cameras cannot cover every corner. This still leaves opportunities for the perpetrator. Our investigators at Kurtz Commercial Detective Agency Nuremberg can assist you in optimising your visual surveillance systems; we can also review your company’s security installations and, where appropriate, expand them more effectively.

Another method of stopping thieving employees is the insertion of an undercover operative. In this process, one of our detectives from Nuremberg is employed by you as a member of staff and can therefore examine employees at close quarters. This detective works like any other employee in your company, makes contact with colleagues, sometimes even spends leisure time with them, and thus learns more about each individual. This approach is very time- and cost-intensive, but in most cases delivers the desired result. Naturally, a careful assessment of the cost–benefit factor is essential; our commercial investigators in Nuremberg will advise you in detail on which approach is appropriate for your company. You can arrange a non-binding consultation by emailing kontakt@kurtz-detektei-nuernberg.de or by calling +49 911 3782 0154.

Safeguarding Corporate Interests with Discretion

Individual employees commit theft, and sometimes acts of sabotage. Expenses are overstated, sick leave is fraudulently claimed while working for a competitor, and so forth. Competitors attempt to obtain technological solutions, patents or other company internals through industrial espionage. There are cases of unfair practices or of credit endangerment. Companies are blackmailed, threatened or coerced.

Companies do not always wish to resolve internal matters through the justice system and thus in public. The evidence obtained through the work of our Nuremberg commercial detectives often enables an out-of-court settlement with the illegally acting employee. You can rely on our discretion.

Sample List of Services Provided by Kurtz Detective Agency Nuremberg in the Area of Employee Surveillance

• Identification of perpetrators and reconstruction of offences in cases of suspected theft of goods and goods fraud

• Surveillance in cases of suspected feigned illness (continued remuneration fraud)

• Surveillance and research in cases of suspected competitive fraud

• Surveillance in cases of suspected unauthorised secondary employment

• Undercover insertion of detectives, for example in cases of employee theft

• Surveillance in cases of suspected working-time, accounting and expenses fraud

• Professional behavioural analysis