Misappropriation of assets
The most common fraudulent practice (more than 60% of fraud cases) consists of misappropriation of company assets for the benefit of a third party, without compensation. In most cases, this fraud concerns cash flow, but it may also concern any other asset within the company, such as production, stock or the equipment made available to your employees.
The main cases of theft are theft of cash (in the event of access to cash registers), the misappropriation of expensive equipment, and of course theft of merchandise and stock and the theft of customer files.
Upstream, we will support you on how to learn to detect and protect yourself from these misappropriations. We can put in place the necessary initiatives for the defense of your property and assets. In the event of misappropriation, we will construct an effective plan of intervention in order to identify the fraudsters and to better protect the enterprise. We will coordinate our intervention with the authorities, judicial officers and all other approved professionals.
Fraudulent financial statements
The falsification of financial statements is the deliberate presentation of an erroneous, inaccurate or incomplete financial situation of a company through intentional errors or omissions with regard to amounts or information, in order to deceive the financial statement users.
This fraud does not necessarily provide personal financial gain, it often does nothing to tarnish an image or status and it is regularly seen during acquisition phases. We focus on overvaluation of assets / Undervaluation of receipts or property assets / Receipts We will support you during acquisition phases and equity operations using specific techniques implemented by our experts which go beyond the traditional audit - which is still not really adequate for the detection of fraudulent financial statements
Accident at Work / Occupational Sickness Fraud
The compensation scheme for industrial accidents and occupational diseases is mainly based on the confidence placed in workers' declarations. The ease with which social security benefits are paid and the fact that they are also quite generous are increasingly a source of abuse.
The most common cases are for an employee to make a false statement about the place or the circumstances of a work accident in order to obtain a right to benefits or an increase in their rights.
Please note that the act of a health care professional carrying out fraudulent invoicing for services or deliveries is presented as falling under the ‘work accident fraud/occupational sickness fraud’ category, even though these are unrelated to a work accident, a commuting accident or an occupational disease.
We provide you with the means necessary to defend yourself and safeguard your rights. We aid you in the detection of abuses and fraud by organizing the intervention of professionals such as legal bodies, private research agents and all other legal professionals.
Illegal work
If your company is the victim of unfair competition from one of your competitors, who employ illegal labor for example, then Agenc-IE will construct a plan of intervention to support you in the fight against this scourge by orchestrating the intervention of the relevant authorities, legal bodies and all other approved professionals. Illegal work issues usually concern the following circumstances:
- Use of self-employed workers: to be reclassified as “false self-employed workers”, the problematic of “disguised wage earners”
- Use of subcontractors under total economic dependence: reclassification as "false subcontracting", problematic of contractual exclusivity
- Use of European or foreign subcontractors and their posted workers: problem of employee posting fraud, a priority area of inspection relating to the provision of international services
- Failure to observe due diligence: failure to present the required documents in the event of an inspection by the Labor Inspectorate or URSSAF (Department of Social Security and Family Allowance)
DUTY OF VIGILANCE ON THE PART OF THE CONTRACTOR
You are considered to be the Principal when you entrust the execution of work to another person. You are responsible for the design, development, manufacture and implementation of works that you entrust to a professional and for which you are the recipient or the final beneficiary. Please note that you may also be referred to as the "Project Manager", "the main work provider", "customer", "beneficiary", "owner", "buyer" or even "sponsor" of the service. This system concerns both individuals and professionals, natural or legal persons, under private law or public law. "(Circular N ° DSS / SD5C / 2012/186 of November 16, 2012 relating to the vigilance certificate).
At Agenc-IE we call on on a network of experts to assist you with compliance regarding your document collection and storage obligations, whether with regard to a French co-contracting party or European or foreign subcontracting and also in the event of the posting of employees to French territory. Our objective is to limit the risks incurred, in particular in terms of financial benefits vis-à-vis URSSAF, but also with regard to criminal risk. We will determine the concrete and effective internal administrative measures capable of providing protection; in addition we have developed field audit solutions applicable to your subcontractors in order to effectively and preventively fight against fraud risks.
