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Effectively managing business risks necessitates a thorough understanding of your counterparts. This entails gathering comprehensive intelligence on individuals or companies with whom you intend to engage and making informed decisions based on this information.

Do the ethical values of your business partners really align with yours?

In both our personal and professional lives, enduring and prosperous relationships are built upon trust. In business, getting acquainted with your prospective partners enables you to assess their character, integrity, values, and reliability, laying a solid foundation for your collaborative endeavors. 

Regrettably, instances of fraud are all too prevalent in the business world, fueled by factors like an excessive pursuit of profit, deficient ethical standards, lax internal controls, and a pervasive culture of corruption. 

These fraudulent activities typically involve either internal perpetrators within the victim company or external business partners. Such individuals and organizations often siphon resources from companies, resulting in significant losses. Especially, if collusion takes place between these parties, the harm inflicted upon the victim company can be exacerbated, leading to devastating consequences. 

Effectively managing business risks necessitates a thorough understanding of your counterparts. This entails gathering comprehensive intelligence on individuals or companies with whom you intend to engage and making informed decisions based on this information. 

Cerebra enhances your decision-making process by providing comprehensive intelligence on individuals and companies with whom you are considering or currently conducting business. Drawing upon our extensive investigative expertise, we execute intelligence operations utilizing open sources and a leading global intelligence investigative platform. 

Corporate Intelligence Services

    Investigative Due Diligence

    Before you collaborate with your business partners, we conduct a thorough investigation to help you gather crucial information and make well-founded business decisions.

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    Background Investigation

    Cerebra conducts thorough examinations to identify inconsistencies in resumes and obtain comprehensive information about candidates' qualifications, experience, background, and character.

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    Third-Party Risk Management

    Choosing an honest business partner isn’t just about ethics; it’s a critical determinant of commercial success. This impacts your reputation, financial stability, and legal security.

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    Merger & Acquisition Due Dilligence

    Cerebra’s thorough investigation before a merger or acquisition allows you to obtain crucial information about the target company's ethical stance.

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    Cerebra uncovered fraudulent activities of three senior executives in hidden relationships with a dawn raid

    A multinational energy company (the client) was concerned about the costs of services received from a supplier for a critical project managed by its Turkish subsidiary (the victim company). The client requested Cerebra to investigate the reasons for this budget overrun and the suspicions surrounding the general manager, financial affairs manager, and accounting manager of the victim company, as well as the supplier. 

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    Cerebra supported the victim company to recover loss of EUR 815.000 by uncovering fraudulent activities

    Our client, a multinational food company, contacted Cerebra through their law firm in Turkey. The client suspected that their sales manager in Turkey had secretly established a firm with a distributor and was diverting company sales to this new entity. They requested Cerebra to calculate the potential loss caused by these suspicious activities.

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    Cerebra provided forensic accounting services to a plaintiff in a widely publicized case concerning a bank manager's misappropriation of funds

    In a high-profile case known to the public as the Seçil Erzan incident, the law firm representing one of the bank customers (client or plaintiff) contacted Cerebra to request a forensic accounting analysis of the plaintiff's account transactions, including an analysis of transactions in all foreign currencies, and to uncover any potential suspicious activities. 

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    Cerebra uncovered irregularities committed by an accounting manager using fake physical documents and journal entries

    Our client, one of Turkey's leading real estate investment companies, suspected an employee in the accounting and administrative affairs department of committing irregularities on reported expenses. Cerebra was assigned to investigate these suspicions. 

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    Cerebra proved the conflict of interest and bribery schemes between the sales manager and a business partner

    A multinational company with production facilities and sales offices across several continents contacted us through a Turkish law firm they collaborate with, to investigate suspicions about a sales manager working at their Turkish office. The suspicion was a possible hidden relationship between the sales manager and one of the company's customers. 

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    Cerebra uncovered a multifaceted fraud case perpetrated by an employee with a gambling addiction

    Our client, a supplier to globally recognized textile brands in Turkey, reported suspicions regarding the activities of their administrative affairs officer. In the defense statement obtained in this context, the suspect admitted to irregularities in the sale of two company vehicles and falsifying with some offers and invoices.

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    Cerebra identified the misconduct of a senior executive, leading to the recovery of USD 12 million worth of stolen assets

    A family-owned company, ranked among Turkey's top 100 industrial firms, reached out to Cerebra. The company’s shareholders suspected that the senior executive in charge of international sales was involved in fraudulent activities related to discounts on significant transactions and requested Cerebra to investigate these suspicions. 

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    Ali Gürün

    Sanmar Denizcilik Makina ve Ticaret A.Ş.

    For forty-seven years, Sanmar has been manufacturing and supplying tugs to many countries around the world. The company builds vessels at its purpose-built, state-of-the-art Altinova and Tuzla shipyards, located in the heart of Turkey's shipbuilding industry. In addition, with its young fleet, trained and...

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    Sriram Ganeshan

    Redington

    We have engaged Cerebra across a wide spectrum of professional engagements including due-diligence, internal audits and process reviews. What stood out in each of the assignments was the involvement of team members with the necessary subject matter expertise. This brought in immense value...

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    Christopher H. Rising

    Global Risk & Investigative Diligence, LLC - USA

    Selecting Cerebra CPAs & Advisors to assist my firm and its clients proved to be one of the wisest decisions we have ever made. My firm was engaged by a global corporation based in the U.S. to conduct a complex fraud investigation involving its acquisition of a local company in Turkey.

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    Ufuk Kızıltan

    Samet Kalıp ve Madeni Eşya San.ve Tic. A.Ş.

    Samet Kalıp is the leading brand in the furniture accessories industry in Turkey and the world with its production facilities, extensive dealer structure and exports to more than 80 countries in five continents. As Samet Kalıp, we have been in close cooperation with Cerebra for many years on...

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