Guardian Investigations performs investigative asset searches throughout the world. We have successfully conducted asset searches in Western and Eastern Europe, South America and Asia on matrimonial, litigation matters and fraud cases.
From our experience, the most common hiding places for assets are:
- Safe deposit boxes
- Under aliases
- With relatives, friends, and partners
- Offshore/foreign accounts
- Home and commercial mortgages
- Overpayments to IRS
- Universal life insurance
- Sweetheart lawsuits
- Stockbroker accounts
- Overpayments to credit cards
- Dissolved corporations
- Cars, yachts, aircraft, jewelry
- Savings bonds, travelers and cashier’s checks
Our experience has shown that most of the time hidden assets are liquid. For instance, bank accounts, stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Other types of hidden assets include real property like houses and land, as well as vehicles. Less frequently, individuals try to move assets out of the reach of creditors, litigants or “enemies” by hiding these assets cleverly in such places as life insurance, annuities, offshore accounts, mortgage or credit card paydowns, or most commonly, by transferring assets to a spouse, friend or business entity. The most sophisticated asset-hiding schemes involve transfers to living or offshore trust accounts.
Guardian Investigations has experienced professional local investigators in the relevant cities throughout the world that have the capability and know-how to secure evidence of hidden assets. Our investigators have been uncovering hidden assets for years and apply the most cost-effective means and methods for securing the necessary evidence, documentation or otherwise.
Disclaimer: With respect to each file, Guardian Investigations, Inc performs the services necessary to obtain current financial account(s) data regarding the subject of the investigation in complete compliance with all applicable laws in performing the search, including, without limitation, the Gramm-Leach- Bliley Act (“GLBA”) Federal Banking Commission or State or Federal Laws (“FBC”), and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”).