Financial Investigations

A complete financial investigation not only protects your current or future financial reputation in either your private life or your business.  Carlsborg Investigation Services, Inc. specializes in investigating financial records to safe guard you and others. In today’s business and in your private life, timely and accurate accounting of your financial asset is a necessity.  If for any reason you have doubts that they are not being managed appropriately by your business partners or employees or by family members in either probate or guardianship role. Let us investigate your suspicions.

 

We will also assist in the investigation with other entities and do court preparation for money laundering cases.  This company has successfully investigated, prepared and presented money-laundering documents in legal proceedings, the latest being in Thurston County.  

In 2005, a Seattle area business co-owner was approached by his partner to sign a new agreement for their business partnership.  He became suspicious in the language of the new arrangement and contacted a lawyer who had not been retained or influenced by his partner.  The lawyer hired by our future client told him that the new agreement being pushed by his partner actually relinquished him of fifty percent ownership to that of zero percent ownership in the business.

 

The lawyer referred our client to George Braly, the owner of Carlsborg Investigation Services, Inc.  Mr. Braly began a forensic audit on the company’s records provided by our client, without the other partners knowledge an investigation was occurring.  The client also provided access to the company computers which the CISI computer forensic expert was able to make copies of the hard drive to gain additional information on the company’s finances. 

 

The final results of the greater than 850 hours investigation was the partner who had pushed for a new contract was offered a settlement to dissolve the company and leave the ownership of the company to our client.  In the course of the investigation, the now past partner of our client had misappropriated over five million dollars in money over a period of six years.  The present owner is greatly indebted to Mr. Braly and Carlsborg Investigation Services, Inc.

Case Profile  -  Suspicious Partnership Agreement

On February 1 and 6 of 2007, Alden M. Yale pleads guilty to Leading Organized Crime, Money Laundering and two counts of Conspiracy to Deliver a Controlled Substance – Methamphetamine.  Mr. Yale was described by one of his associates as being the biggest methamphetamine dealer in Thurston and Pierce Counties. 

 

The investigation by the Thurston County Drug Task Force had been initiated in July 2005 when tips and information had become apparent of drug dealing on a large scale being lead by Mr. Yale.  The case was worked by the Detectives until they obtained probable cause for a search warrant which was served on August 3, 2006 on property owned by Yale.  Information obtained during and shortly after by Detectives showed a pattern of money laundering activities. 

 

Thurston County Deputy Prosecutor Dominique Jinhong lead the prosecution of the case and recognized that she would need a Certified Fraud Examiner who has years of accounting experience to examine the financial documents of Yale to solidify the money laundering case.  Deputy Prosecutor Jinhong contacted George Braly, owner of Carlsborg Investigation Services, Inc. who took the financial documents of Yale and proved the elements of the crime of money laundering.  The case was resolved without going to trial.

Case Profile  -  Money Laundering

A commercial real estate owner in the in the greater Seattle area suspected his property management expenses were costing him more than it had in previous years and questioned the contracted property management company.  Alarmed by the allegations, the property manager began by examining property management records thoroughly, leading to an investigation of his bookkeeper of 18 years. 

 

The scheme was well thought out and almost foolproof.  The bookkeeper used QuickBooks to process checks payable to her name.  She forged the property manager’s name on the check, then cashed the check at a Money Tree check cashing store, pocketing the money.  Upon returning back to the office, the bookkeeper would change the payment information in QuickBooks to a legitimate vendor, deleting her name out of the payment records.

 

The property manager contacted the police but was told that the likelihood of recovering the amount of money that he had lost from the bookkeeper’s forgery and theft might not be enough to warrant law enforcement involvement.  The property owner called Mr. George Braly, owner of Carlsborg Investigation Services, Inc.   The case was immediately investigated.  Mr. Braly’s final report revealed thousand of dollars had been misappropriated in this manner.  The property manager took responsibility for his employee and paid the owner the amount that was owed to him.  Mr. Braly recommended a civil lawyer to the property manager, advising him to legally recover the misappropriated money from the bookkeeper.

Case Profile  -  Bookkeeping Forgery

PI # 1610