Fraud and asset recovery.
Civil fraud, tracing, and enforcement across complex corporate structures, banking records, and concealed communications.
Civil fraud and asset recovery cases are won by reconstruction: following funds through layers of entities and accounts, establishing who controlled what and proving dishonesty from a record that the wrongdoers designed to obscure. The work is urgent at the outset, when freezing and discovery orders depend on a persuasive account of the evidence, and relentless thereafter.
Crimson builds a Case Model that maps the individuals, entities, accounts, transactions, and communications in a fraud to the causes of action and the tracing claims they support. Teams can reconstruct the scheme quickly, evidence knowledge and dishonesty from the record and prepare injunction applications, pleadings, and enforcement steps with every assertion cited to its source.
Typical case file
- Bank statements and payment records
- Corporate registry and ownership documents
- Email, chat, and messaging communications
- Contracts, invoices, and loan documentation
- Third-party discovery (banks, agents, registries)
- Affidavits and witness statements
- Forensic accounting reports
- Court orders, undertakings, and enforcement documents
The pressures
facing your team.
Deliberately obscured records
Fraudsters use nominees, layered structures, and informal communications. The evidence exists but is fragmented and disguised.
Urgency at the outset
Freezing orders, search orders, and third-party discovery applications need a coherent, evidenced account within days.
Tracing through entities and jurisdictions
Following value through corporate vehicles and bank accounts across jurisdictions requires connecting banking records to corporate and communication evidence.
Proving dishonesty
Courts infer knowledge and dishonesty from the whole picture. Missing a single inconsistency can undermine the inference.
A Case Model built for
fraud and asset recovery.
At upload, Crimson maps the parties, events, disputed facts, claims, defenses and evidence in your matter into a structured Case Model with full provenance. Every workflow below runs on that model.
Map the structure and the people
The Case Model links individuals, entities, directorships, accounts, and relationships, so you can trace control and beneficial ownership across the record.
Follow the funds
Connect transactions in banking records to the instructions, approvals, and communications around them, and build the tracing chronology with sources.
Move at injunction speed
Interrogate the material obtained within hours to assemble the evidence needed for freezing, search, and discovery applications.
Evidence knowledge and dishonesty
Surface every inconsistency between a defendant's account and the contemporaneous record, and every communication that evidences awareness.
Draft applications and pleadings with precision
Produce first drafts of affidavits, pleadings, and briefs with each assertion referenced to the underlying document.
Questions Crimson answers,
cited to the page.
Illustrative questions from fraud and asset recovery matters. Crimson traces each answer to the supporting document, page, and passage.
- Trace the funds transferred from the escrow account on March 14 through the recipient entities.
- Which documents show that the second defendant controlled the BVI company?
- Build a chronology of communications between the defendants around each disputed payment.
- Identify every inconsistency between the first defendant's affidavit and the banking record.
- Summarize all evidence of the third party's knowledge of the scheme.
Common questions from fraud & asset recovery teams.
Ingestion is compute-intensive by design, but you can use a matter as soon as processing completes, and Crimson processes incremental uploads as they arrive. Teams routinely upload the initial evidence and begin interrogating it the same day in preparation for an urgent application.
Also built for.
Insolvency and Restructuring
Officeholder claims, director conduct, and contested restructurings built on the full history of a company's decline.
Regulatory and White-Collar Investigations
Internal, regulatory, and criminal investigations where teams must establish knowledge, intent, and timing across individuals, entities, and years of communications.
Commercial Litigation
Contract, shareholder, joint venture, and supply-chain disputes where the answer is buried in years of correspondence.