Economic Espionage

Fraud examiners who work for global corporations need to protect their employers by being savvy with the latest "under/over-invoicing" schemes used by money launderers and terrorist fundraisers. If they don't, the courts might find their businesses criminally liable.

A business risk need not be extraordinary to be potentially devastating. Some of the greatest hazards arise from sources both familiar and apparently harmless. Case in point: A seemingly honest employee's 1997 theft of top-secret design plans for The Gillette Company's then revolutionary Mach 3 triple-blade razor. Gillette had spent $750 million developing it. If the company didn't get the anticipated return on this massive investment, it wouldn't have survived.