Pre-employment and Integrity Screening / Current Employee Screening - back to top
The Risk in Employing Workers at your Business: Loss of productivity, the cost of absenteeism, theft of physical assets and intellectual property, conflicts of interest, unauthorized use of your telephone, PCs, vehicles, substance abuse, restraint of trade issues from the applicants past employers, illegal immigration.
The Risk in Employing Household Staff and Casual Workers: theft, identity theft, sexual predation, lack of due care regarding children, unauthorized use of your telephone, PC, vehicles.
Whether at home or the workplace you would not want to employ someone with a criminal record, substance abuse habit, falsified records, embellished CV or lack of relevant experience. Would you?
Whether you are a house hold or commercial employer it is all but impossible to have personal knowledge regarding the previous performance levels, honesty or qualifications of all their employees. Time and time again seemingly ideal staff subsequently turn out to be the proverbial nightmare employee.
It is always agreed that staff are your greatest asset but they also present the greatest risk.
This situation is made far more complex when one recruits staff from overseas where linguistic differences, qualifications, processes, procedures and access to personal information may vary radically from what one is used to.
As well as performing Pre and Post Employment vetting enquiries in an employer’s home country ACLARADO ENQUIRIES fulfills a niche market in the field of providing a one stop shop for employers wishing to enquire in to the back ground of staff originating from foreign countries.
ACLARADO ENQUIRIES global network of partner offices, affiliates, and contacts provides a one stop shop for any employee vetting requirements.
Ask ACLARADO ENQUIRIES about how applicants are able to obtain false driving licenses, university degrees, identity documents, high school diplomas, references, employment records and the membership of supposedly professional governing bodies or associations.
Pre-Investment Enquiries - back to top
We have all heard of the “sure thing” “the once in a lifetime opportunity” and the old gem of “it’s too good to be true.”Whilst we might occasionally come across a once in a life time opportunity there is simply no such beast as a “sure thing” and although often stated it is worth repeating that something that is described as “too good to be true” usually is!
The fact of the matter is that the bulk of investment in the small to medium sized sector is usually based upon information provided by the company / organisation involved or by background research conducted by the investor.
Whist we would never discourage an investor from conducting their own research it should always be backed up with an external impartial point of view to prevent bias and the possibility of talking yourself in to something without taking cognizance of certain aspects of negative information that may be present.
Investment in limited liability organisations (LTDs, PTYs, SARLs, CCs, AGs etc) is always something worthy of investigation. Strictly speaking who is liable in the event that everything goes wrong and results in insolvency or other civil proceedings? The answer is almost invariable no one. That’s what limited liability means.
Do you KNOW the background of the principles behind your potential investment target or have you relied upon information provided by them and their contacts? Do they have personal financial issues, what other businesses are they principles in? More importantly what businesses have they been principles of in the past and how successful were they? (See Personal Background Enquiries)
Has your investment target ensured that they have taken care of and maintained relevant regulatory issues such as licensing, environmental considerations, corporate filings and audit requirements? Is there any history of civil litigation or employee disputes?
How stable is your investment target’s market? What competition is out there? How does the competitions pricing, reputation, market place, and ability affect you investment target?
Remember people were investing in Enron, Barrings Bank, WorldCom and the Sub-prime mortgage market right up until the last minute as each was such a “sure fire” investment.
It is should not be forgotten that the potential exposure to risk is almost always the equal for the companies, organisations or new businesses and their investors.
You would never allow a stranger that you have never met and know nothing about to look after your children, give them gifts or to be given personal information about them would you? With that in mind why would you do so with your company, its assets, client lists and information?
Where does their money come from? Are they as good as their word? Do they have intentions that you are unaware of regarding control of your company?
Pre-Litigation Enquiries - back to top
ACLARADO ENQUIRIES has experience in the following not only on a domestic single country basis but also in claims involving multiple countries and legal jurisdictions involving amongst others debtors, divorce, child maintenance and damages claims.
ACLARADO ENQUIRIES is happy to work in partnership with you or your chosen attorneys in effecting the successful service of summonses and other court papers.
There are two questions to ask prior to instigating legal action:
Do you KNOW or just suspect where the potential defendant may be best served with legal papers?
In the case of financially based claims KNOW or just suspect that the debtor has sufficient assets and their location so that you may successfully enforce any subsequent judgment?
One of the main purposes behind issuing a summons is so that the plaintiff may enforce a judgment in order to recover assets or funds to the value of the claim. It should be remembered that servicing summons is no guarantee of payment unless the most stringent safe guards are applied.
In the case of judgments that are obtained by default there is an argument that it will be registered against the debtor thereby affecting the defendant’s ability to obtain credit.
The problem with this logic is that a debtor who has had a judgment granted against them usually faced prior financial difficulties and are unable to obtain credit anyway.
In summary a default judgment is in effect virtually worthless piece of paper that simply states a court believes that a debtor owes a sum of money to a creditor. You already knew that!
The ACLARADO ENQUIRIES Solution - back to top
ACLARADO ENQUIRIES ’s Pre-Legal Trace / Asset Reporting services provide potential plaintiffs with the answers to the three questions regarding the service of summons.Where to serve summons. Assets that may be recoverable upon the granting of judgment in your favour. What other litigation has the potential plaintiff been involved in.
Our Asset reporting services can provide knowledge with regard to the best method of enforcing a judgment such as by garnishee or the uplifting of assets. A Pre-Legal report can also prevent you wasting money in serving summons on those that have passed away, been declared insolvent or cannot be found.
Trademark / Copyright Piracy and Patent Infringement Enquiries - back to top
Trademark Piracy, Copyright Piracy and Patent Infringement issues are not restricted to the music industry, high end IT companies and the pharmaceutical industry.
Provided you have undertaken the appropriate registering procedures you invention, logo, internet domain, product / company name or design belong to you.
ACLARADO ENQUIRIES staff have encountered not only the cheap far eastern imitations of IT goods, designer labels, fake DVDs or fake automotive and aircraft parts but also, illegally produced books, pizzas, sweets, cakes, “adult toys,” concert, theater and even bus tickets.
Trademark Piracy, Copyright Piracy and Patent Infringement enquiries are invariable very expensive. It is however often the case that the failure to act will be far costlier in the long run.
Personal / Corporate Background Enquiries - back to top
It is not just employers that need to know about individuals. We have all experienced that “all is not right” feeling when dealing with people.
It might be that dating partner or internet chat mate who seem just TOO good.
Maybe it’s the investment deal where the figures check out but the principle(s) of the company just seem to put your teeth on edge or a situation where you have no investment loss to face but worry about the person you are entering in to business with.
Are you applying for a position or been offered a job with a company and wish to check that you potential employer is a wise choice free of employee abuses, persistent trade disputes, financial strife and are fully up to speed with their regulatory and statutory requirements.
Are you the defendant in a legal case and require information regarding the plaintiff?
Are you involved obtaining information regarding a company’s prior environmental record?
Tracing - back to top
We specialize in harder to find traces and those returned without a result from other agents.
ACLARADO ENQUIRIES staff have undertaken tracing assignments for almost every reason you can think of and maybe a few more!
Some did not want to be found and made every effort to evade us, some wanted to be found but did not know how to make the first approach to family and friends after being away for so long, some didn’t know they were being looked for.
Who have we traced?
Credit debtors, child maintenance evaders, defendant, respondents and witnesses, adoptee and natural parents, gene therapy assistance, long lost loves and friends, pension / will beneficiaries, absent parents, virtually anyone that is missing.
Where did we find them?
South Africa, UK, Australia, New Zealand, throughout the US it’s outlying islands and protectorates, Canada, India, the Caribbean, Malaysia, Singapore, Pacific Islands, most European countries, Panama, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, several African countries one in Antarctica, on ships, some in prison and on one memorable occasion after searching almost globally we found our man five doors up from our offices!
How did we find them?
Telephone research, proprietary and in house databases, interviewing ex-neighbours and colleagues, email tracing, through the press, licenses (pilots, maritime, drivers etc) professional qualifications, memberships, subscription and delivery services, telephone records, credit commitments, court records, criminal / prison records, share holding records, military service records, tax records and a LOT of legwork
Note: some of the above searches may not be legally permissible in certain countries or jurisdictions. It is simply not worth the risk to break laws concerning privacy, human rights or data protection. Please do not ask us to do so.
ACLARADO ENQUIRIES offers discounted fees to institutional and corporate entities that require bulk tracing services.
Note: Where trace services are requested for personal reason by members of the public clients must complete a declaration outlining the reasons behind their request and their intended use of any information provided by ACLARADO ENQUIRIES. We may refuse to hand over information regarding personal requests without first seeking the authority of the individual you are seeking due to concerns over stalking, bad intent or the sensitivity of the case. Where this happens we are happy to act as a middle party in the transmission of messages.
ACLARADO ENQUIRIES reserves the right to refuse requests for information where we are not confident of the client’s ultimate intention or the use of information that could be provided.