In the field of fraud investigation, Ao-Zhi has
been the first in the industry.
Our experienced investigation team identified facts
for customers, identified what happened, identified
criminals, reduced or recovered losses, and helped
customers rebuild trust with shareholders, partners,
customers, regulators and other stakeholders.
The most prominent professional strengths of Ao-Zhi
company include making effective investigation strategy,
deploying expert level investigation team, and solving
problems quickly and effectively in all parts of the
world.
Ao-Zhi company has unmatched extensive resources,
which can provide many kinds of investigation and
processing methods that meet customer’s requirements,
including forensic accounting, electronic evidence
raising and other advanced methods. At the same time,
it will also use traditional investigative tools,
such as secret investigation and surveillance. Our
investigation team is made up of former prosecutors,
forensic accountants, investigators, computer forensics
experts and intelligence analysts. They have broad
and solid professional skills. This is our advantage.
The company is working closely with its customers"
senior management team and legal advisers. After evaluating
and identifying the main purpose of a customer, we
usually investigate quickly, aiming to identify the
source of information and the person responsible for
wrongful acts. Effective surveys usually include the
following aspects: face to face inquiries for employees,
identification of non employee witnesses, location,
retrieval and analysis of key documents and materials,
and effective strategies for risk management. We will
regularly communicate with customers during the investigation
to ensure that the execution of the survey is consistent
with the customer’s goals.
Case study: Employee fraud
A global retailer suspected that the chief executive
of the Chinese company has carried out a series of
illegal commercial transactions, leading to a huge
amount of bad debt. So the commissioned the CEO was
investigated by Ao-Zhi company, the main content of
the survey, including its background and social relations.
After careful investigation by Ao-Zhi company, we
confirm the following facts: the CEO is associated
with many entities that are not disclosed to the head
office, which are illegally incorporated into the
global retailer’s distribution chain. In the end,
the client revoked the CEO"s position and retracted
the management of the Chinese company. Ao-Zhi company
provides a great support for protecting the safety
of customers, helping customers achieve overall control
of their Chinese companies, and making their business
continue.
Case study: investigation of accusations by whistle blowers
Workers from a major American company in Thailand
sent out an anonymous email that revealed violations
of bribes and rebates in the factory. Through the
investigation, Ao-Zhi company’s team revealed the
fraudulent practices of the local senior management
team in the factory, including supplier to related
false invoices (double high fees) and provide a list
of employees to claim rebates, forged wages, and bribing
local politicians. |
In the process of turning to paperless office, enterprises
are increasingly relying on computers and other electronic
office equipment to improve their work efficiency.
At the same time, enterprises are also facing more
challenges: including intellectual property protection,
internal fraud investigation, and protecting their
reputation from external negative effects.
Ao-Zhi’s computer forensics expert can make use of
the most advanced technology nowadays to recover and
utilize the key electronic evidence, and serve for
litigation, investigation and other facts finding
actions. We can determine whether electronic evidence
is deleted or modified, analyze the content of electronic
information and the mode of Internet and e-mail usage,
restore deleted data, and evaluate and interpret meta-data
in the recovered document.
We can usually recover data from the hard disk, even
if someone tries to remove the data completely from
the hard disk. Ao-Zhi company makes a scientific forensic
analysis, so that customers can use our findings to
track illegal behaviors of stealing intellectual property
and counterfeiting products online, and find defamation
anonymously conducted by their competitors or dissatisfied
employees.
The experts in our team are good at maintaining the
integrity of the evidence and improving the admissibility
of the evidence. In court, we may state a statement
or state the results of our evidence analysis by signing
an oath, and we have a wealth of experience. In addition,
we are often commissioned to serve as third party
administrators, that is, in accordance with the agreement
of the parties to the dispute, we have only one opportunity
to review the data. |
The company has a business monitoring plan for private
enterprises to detect and monitor fraud and / or immoral
behavior and enhance internal integrity in the organization.
In addition, in carrying on the supervisory commission
entrusted by the government agencies, the company
has quite a lot of experience. These government agencies
or enterprises and institutions usually need to conduct
in-depth monitoring of the illegal activities of the
organizations they found. They involve the supervision
of public service departments and private enterprises
in many industries.
Ao-Zhi company’s professional team consists of experienced
and proficient in professional knowledge and skill
of professional consultants, their professional background
includes legal, financial, compliance management,
business consulting, law enforcement, loss prevention,
auditing, accounting, journalism, computer forensics,
security, and are experts in these fields.
Ao-Zhi has a strong team composed of experienced professionals.
The team members have superb skills, which can fulfill
the tasks of monitoring compliance, professional ethics
and law-abiding education. Besides, we also have investigators,
forensic personnel, accountants, researchers and other
professionals working in various offices at home and
abroad, which makes our team more powerful.
Ao-Zhi company has unmatched extensive resources,
which can provide many kinds of investigation and
processing methods that meet customer’s requirements,
including forensic accounting, electronic evidence
raising and other advanced methods. At the same time,
it will also use traditional investigative tools,
such as secret investigation and surveillance. Our
investigation team is made up of former prosecutors,
forensic accountants, investigators, computer forensics
experts and intelligence analysts. They have broad
and solid professional skills. This is our advantage. |
Entering the new and unfamiliar market will cause
enterprises to invest quite a lot of resources, the
company may face many unexpected risks, and not only
lead to the failure of market entry but also may damage
the global reputation of enterprises.
By predicting risk and providing guidance, Ao-Zhi
company can help companies enter into those countries
that are not well built. In past 10 years, Ao-Zhi
company has been working to help customers expand
their business and profit in the difficult market.
With a strong information network, we provide customers
with more extensive in-depth research and analysis,
far deeper than the analysis based on publicly available
information.
We have an accurate judgement of the information that
is acquired domestically, with unmatched deep understanding,
accuracy and credibility of information, and delicate
balance between politics and commerce. The framework
of our market entry strategy is based on exclusive
research on relevant information. We focus on a comprehensive
understanding of the competitive environment, identify
and assess potential business partners, relevant personnel
and regulatory agencies, and conduct a comprehensive
assessment of the political, social, economic and
operational risks. In some markets, the negative impact
of illegal or unethical behavior will seriously hinder
enterprise market development efforts, leading to
long-term financial and reputational loss. Our local
experts in the target market have considerable insight,
and are good at identifying potential links between
planned investment projects and illegal factors. Once
the relevant risk is identified, we will immediately
help the customer to develop an operation to manage
these risks.
Case study: domestic direct investment from an Asian Bank
To expand its project financing business, an Asian
bank plans to offer a $1 billion loan to a Natural
Resources Corp. This Natural Resources Corp has a
very big project in a new market. The bank not only
focuses on the reputation of the borrower, but also
its negative impact on the organization’s ability
to organize syndicated loans. It also focuses on the
government’s attitude towards foreign direct investment.
Owing to the bank’s entrustment, Ao-Zhi company conducted
a related research. After research we find although
the borrower had no bad historical records, the domestic
political environment of the borrower’s country was
much worse than which the bank expected. Accordingly,
the bank has revised the terms and conditions of the
loan.
Case study: assessing potential threats to an enterprise
A French company hired Ao-Zhi company to assess
the operational risks faced by a plant to be acquired
by the company. This company hired academics, local
government officials and other experts brainstorming,
to understand the social environment, demographic
data, race and religion of the location of the plant,
and the interaction between policy makers, the media
and civil society. The company has compiled detailed
research reports, providing accurate analysis of key
operational risks to customers, and providing guidance
for establishing good labor and community relations. |
For an enterprise, whether it is competing with
established companies in the mature market, or enter
new markets and unfamiliar local enterprises – the
success depends on a clear understanding of the strengths
and weaknesses of competitors. Ao-zhi company collects
strategic information that can help customers to gain
competitive advantage in the market.
We have rich experience in many industries, and the
survey business is all over the world, which allows
us to accurately evaluate the competitive environment
that customers are engaged in. We can identify and
find out the key factors of customer competition to
win in the competition, some factors such as political
relations, government subsidies, market restrictions
or even fraud, may constitute an unfair advantage.
We can also identify and find the best legal operation
methods in customer competition supply chain, which
can produce higher profit margins or cheaper products.
When customers want to find a target or a joint venture,
they always turn to the Ao-zhi company to describe
the competitive environment. Especially in domestic
and European regions, customers want to know its competitors
in the government and regulators influence. When we
are engaged in research, we strictly abide by the
law and the highest standards of professional ethics.
After the investigation is completed, we provide the
customer with the information that can guide action,
according to which the customer can make the competitive
strategy and tactics.
Case study: to eliminate the competitive disadvantage of the enterprise in the food industry.
A large global consumer company is worried about its
business performance and main business indicators
of its food business department (a small business
department of the company) the performance is not
very good and needs Ao-Zhi company to help them.
After being commissioned, our professionals made an
in-depth analysis of the supply chain (from procurement
to customer management) of their food industry counterparts.
Through close cooperation with the internal team of
the customer, we have put forward comprehensive remedial
advice to help customers set strategic priorities
and eliminate competitive disadvantages.
Case study: redefines the product of a special chemical manufacturer.
A chemical product is facing new competition after
similar products approved by the competitors they
are seeking help from the Ao-Zhi company. Through
research, we find that the competitor has been contacted
with hundreds of customers, many of them are interested
in the product and intend to purchase. We have provided
an early warning to our customers so that customers
adjust their product supply and cost structure in
time to win out in the competition.
Case study: competitors try to bring shame on a global packaging system supplier.
A global packaging system supplier hired Ao-zhi company
to research its main competitor--- A Chinese company,
The competitor said that our customers have unfair
competition, and launched the media and marketing
offensive for it. The professionals of the Ao-Zhi
company researched the reputation, ownership structure,
management and historical business records of the
company.The survey results show that the competitor
enjoys strong support from the government, but its
business registration is illegal and there is a problem
of cash flow, and there are similar attacks on the
industry in the past. Using the information we provide,
the customer effectively protects its market position. |
The objective of the traditional business due diligence
is to predict the performance of the enterprise in
a market and competitive environment.
However, in some industries or sectors that are not
transparent, or lack of reliable information in emerging
market or frontier market, business surveys alone
may not be enough to make investment decisions. The
company combines the commercial due diligence with
the political risk assessment and the reputation risk
assessment to provide customers with a unique integrated
investment due diligence method.
The integration method of due diligence Augus partners
of the company will not reveal their business due
diligence can match the undisclosed liabilities ability
perfectly together, the so-called undisclosed liabilities
including the investigation of historical stain (corruption
and bribery), the surveyed enterprises and its responsible
person’s reputation, political background and the
influence of the future, returns for investors to
accurately and realistically assess.
The commercial due diligence advanced analysis of
information technology and high-level gathering together,
the investigation report Augus partners company to
provide background information needed to forecast
sales growth, and based on the deep understanding
of the purely commercial and political factors or
credit problems, lists the various possible scenarios
and carries on the analysis.
Case study: a European company has entered China’s logistics industry
A European company is planning to establish a joint
venture in China, so he has commissioned a survey
of Chinese logistics companies. Among 5 candidate
China logistics companies, the customer’s investment
team has chosen one of the key research targets. The
professional staff of the company have analyzed the
overall situation of China’s logistics industry and
the main logistics enterprises from the commercial
point of view. At the same time, it is also found
that China is going to introduce a law that will make
non-state-owned logistics enterprises in a disadvantageous
position in some logistics fields. The findings have
a direct impact on our business due diligence and
forecast of the sales and business growth of the potential
partners of the Chinese side. According to the survey,
we made a comprehensive analysis of 5 Chinese potential
partners and evaluated the future performance risk
more accurately.
Case study: reducing the legal risk in MA operations
The United States XXX investment advisory company
in the acquisition of domestic production enterprises,
I entrust center first to the enterprise legitimacy
and effectiveness, land and property rights and equipment
constraints, the target enterprise of significant
transactions, debt issues in-depth investigation,
we have provided complete and detailed according to
the requirements of the final the analysis report,
so that customers very satisfied..... |
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