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Qwest Forensics

Qwest Forensics offers a highly effective intelligence and investigation service to safeguard your business in the compliance-led and increasingly complex commercial world. 

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Not all commercial transactions go according to plan. This can result in financial and reputational loss if the counterparty fails to meet their obligations or fraud or other criminal activity is involved.

Qwest Forensics offers services ranging from investigation of a counterparty’s standing prior to fixing, through asset tracing where loss has been incurred, to marine investigations of all types, with ‘boots on the ground’ if necessary.

Key features

  • High quality advice from former law enforcement officers experienced in serious and economic crime, critical incident management and drugs investigation

  • Professionals, skilled in the maritime sector

  • Global reach with an extended network of police and military contacts to help solve your problem.

  • Service provided on a permanent basis or as and when needed

  • Value for money with annual or call-down arrangements, fixed fees, hourly rates or any combination of these to fit your requirements and all agreed in advance

  • An approach that turns information into intelligence and then, if needed, evidence for use in court

Who is it for?

  • Shipowners and operators

  • Time and voyage charterers

  • Traders

  • Shipmanagers

  • Freight forwarders

  • Insurers – Liability, Hull, Energy, P+I

  • Brokers

  • Maritime lawyers

  • Port operators

  • Banks

  • Salvors

  • Governments and local authorities

Product Guide

What kind of problem?

  • Investigation and advice

  • Counterparty risk assessment and “Know Your Client” enhanced due diligence
  • Asset tracing and enforcement
  • Cyber and IT forensics
  • Fraud
  • Enhanced ship tracking and analysis
  • Drug smuggling prevention, investigation and mitigation
  • Loss prevention advice 
  • Delays and accidents at port, cable and pipeline breaches
  • Maritime personal injury and life claims
  • Sanctions - ship tracing and investigating cargo origin

FAQ - Qwest Forensics

Yes, Qwest Forensics’ experienced team can obtain information about a company and advise on its reputation and ability to pay. We can also trace assets belonging to a counterparty if debts are unpaid.

Economic crime, fraud and any other types of crime, including smuggling, which involve a ship operator in loss or issues with government authorities. Qwest Forensics can investigate an incident, provide expert forensic analysis to inform an action or settlement, make recommendations to ensure future protection and help prepare for court or other legal proceedings.

With substantive backgrounds in law enforcement, including service on a number of serious crime and other task forces, the Qwest Forensic's team has decades of experience in carrying out sensitive and discrete global investigations.