Düsseldorf Citizen Misused for Document Forgery in Australia

A case of international criminal significance, in which the detectives of Kurtz Investigations Düsseldorf had already conducted investigations in spring 2014, has now been concluded through a court conviction, as our Australian colleague of our Düsseldorf private investigators recently informed us.

 

The starting point was an inquiry in spring 2014 from a detective in Australia, who – together with the authorities (a scenario hardly conceivable in Germany) – was following up suspicions of document forgery and money laundering and whose investigative findings led to Germany. A number of companies had been identified in Australia that were all registered under the names of two Düsseldorf citizens and were struggling with considerable debts and allegations of fraud. Among other issues, it concerned massive tax evasion. Through a cross-connection, however, the Australian colleague and client of our Düsseldorf corporate investigators had discovered that in each individual registration of these companies a particular Australian national had been involved. Since the two company owners from Düsseldorf had indeed lived in Australia for two years but did not possess an Australian visa during the period when the companies were registered, our colleague from Down Under began to doubt that the registrations had been carried out lawfully. Consequently, he instructed the private detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Düsseldorf to locate the two company owners and confront them with the legal issue that was currently being investigated against them in Australia.

The target persons, one female and one male, of our Düsseldorf corporate investigators were known only by their first and last names and, in the case of the female target person, by her date of birth. They had also moved from Düsseldorf to Australia for two years in 1998. Where they had gone afterwards was initially unknown. Based on the name and date of birth of the female target person, our investigators from Düsseldorf began a database search and obtained the current registered address, which was fortunately not abroad but in Bremen. Since both targets shared the same surname, the detectives of the Kurtz corporate investigation agency Düsseldorf obtained an extended register information and learnt that the male target person was the son of the female TP. They also obtained the son’s date of birth: It fell in December 1996. Thus, the target person was still a minor at the time of the investigation, and at the time of the company registrations (2008 and 2009) he had not even been legally competent. Consequently, it could be ruled out that this target person of our Düsseldorf private investigators could have legally founded the companies under investigation. The female target person was an English teacher at a secondary school and showed no financial or criminal irregularities.

 

Our detectives from Düsseldorf passed the results to the Australian client. He confirmed that our findings matched his suspicions. He had not wanted to fully brief Kurtz Investigations Düsseldorf in order to avoid creating bias in the investigations, but he had already suspected that the two Düsseldorf – now Bremen – individuals were unlikely to have founded the companies in question. Consequently, he instructed our Düsseldorf investigators to approach the targets, inform them about the situation, and ask whether they had anything to state regarding the case.

 

Accordingly, the detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Düsseldorf contacted their colleagues in Bremen and asked them to visit the identified address of the targets in the early evening hours and brief them on the investigation in order to uncover any possible involvement. Our Australian client instructed the investigators to be completely transparent from the beginning and to inform the targets openly that no urgent suspicion existed against them and that they were instead presumed to be victims. When the detectives of Kurtz Investigations Bremen arrived at the address of the target person, the lady was naturally surprised, but after a brief conversation allowed the investigators into the house and offered them coffee. She was shocked by the case description, particularly by the fact that her then 12-year-old son, who at the time of the questioning was staying with his father in Duisburg, had been used as a company founder. She had indeed lived and worked in Australia for two years, but the idea of founding one or even several companies had never crossed her mind, especially as she had always intended to return to Germany. She did, however, know the target person of our Australian client and detective colleague. She had had a brief affair with him during her stay in Australia, but the matter had ended due to his dishonesty, and he had never met her son. The detectives of Kurtz Investigations Bremen recorded all statements and, at the end, asked the lady to sign the interview protocol. She declined. She preferred to get in touch personally with our client and the Australian authorities and to consult a lawyer. Nevertheless, she thanked our Bremen investigators for delivering the admittedly unpleasant information.

The Bremen colleagues forwarded the interview protocol to the investigators of Kurtz Private Detective Agency Düsseldorf, who in turn established contact between the Australian detective and the target person. The job was completed for our Düsseldorf corporate investigators at this point.

 

Finally, at the end of 2014, we received an update from our colleague in Australia: Our target person had personally flown from Bremen to Australia to testify in court. The perpetrator was proven guilty of fraud, signature and document forgery in six cases, as well as delaying insolvency in two cases. He was sentenced to several years in prison.

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