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A global leader in Risk, Compliance and Background Investigations
ABOUT CORPORATE RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATIONS (CRI® GROUP)
Corporate Research and Investigations Limited (CRI® Group) has been safeguarding businesses from fraud, bribery and corruption since 1990. Globally, we are a leading Compliance and Risk Management company licensed and incorporated entity of the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) and Qatar Financial Center (QFC). CRI® protects businesses by establishing the legal compliance, financial viability, and integrity levels of outside partners, suppliers and customers seeking to affiliate with your business. Based in London, United Kingdom, CRI® is a global company with experts and resources located in key regional marketplaces across the Asia Pacific, South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, North and South America. Our global team can support your organisation anywhere in the world.
In 2016, the company launched the Anti-Bribery Anti-Corruption (ABAC®) Center of Excellence – an independent certification body that helps organisations mitigate internal and external risks by providing a complete suite of Anti-Bribery, Compliance and Risk Management programs.
OUR MISSION AND VISION
- CRI® mission is to safeguard the corporate world by detecting and exposing those elements that can cause irreparable harm to a business
- Stand up against the outside forces that, through corruption, collusion, coercion and fraud, can cause financial, organisational, reputational and legal harm to our global clients
- Stand out as the preeminent provider of specialised investigative services that enable our clients to exhibit the highest standards of business integrity, ethics and behaviour
The integrity of the global business community is essential for the survival of free markets, economic stability, corporate growth, business profitability and employee well-being. CRI® Group’s purpose is to provide the knowledge, systems and solutions that fortify worldwide business integrity and preserve the global marketplace.
CRI® is always ready to assist organisations to effectively manage their workplace in an efficient and risk-free manner that best suits their needs. We safeguard your business from various types of fraud, bribery and corruption, by providing worldwide employee background screening, due diligence, third-party risk management, insurance fraud investigations, and other professional investigative research services, along with anti-bribery management system certification and training solutions. Let our experts at CRI® help you gain the information you need to make informed decisions that will lead to new growth and continued success.
Our global presence ensures that no matter how international your operations are we have the network needed to provide you with all you need, wherever you happen to be. We take great care to ensure that our experts are the best at what they do. We pride ourselves on having the most stringent recruitment standards in the industry. Our experience, skilled workforce, technical resources, networking capabilities, internal flexibility and global offices maximise our solution efficacy.
Ensuring that our clients have access to the best people is half the battle. Added to that is the fact that our extensive experience gives us the breadth and depth of knowledge needed to make sure that your organisation is protected at all turns, at every corner, and through every deal.
The international nature of business today dictates an increasing demand for proactive measures such as global investigations, compliance & risk management solutions to reduce the exposure to organisations of economic crime and civil wrongs, particularly in the financial, government and multinational business sectors. Are you making informed sound decisions regarding M&A, strategic partnerships & selection of employees, vendors or suppliers?
Corporate Research and Investigations (CRI® Group) fosters a corporate culture that places a heavy emphasis on professionalism, continuing education, career development, personal growth, and contribution to the mission and values of the organisation. We embrace a culture that focuses on treating all people with respect, encourages new ideas, rewards hard work, and supports forward-thinking. Further, we endeavour to be an upstanding corporate global citizen in all our operations and in the operations of our subsidiaries and to fulfil our responsibilities to the societies and communities in which we operate.
CRI® Group holds its employees, directors, suppliers, contractors and operating partners to the highest ethical standards, and expects these standards to be upheld at every level of service, including:
- Methods by which investigations are conducted
- Information searches and preservation of evidence
- Surveillance techniques
- Understanding and working in compliance with laws and standards
- Management of information, analysis and review
- Protection and security of client data
It is the policy of CRI® to comply with all applicable anti-corruption laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of the United States, the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom and the applicable anti-bribery laws of all foreign countries in which our organization operates. CRI® further adheres to the Code of Conduct provided and published by The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners to regulate fraud examination practices of Certified Fraud Examiners under a Code of Professional Ethics. This code applies to all of the operations of CRI® and its subsidiaries and sets out the minimum standards which CRI® Group’s Board of Directors expects from staff in their internal and external dealings with colleagues, customers, stakeholders and third parties.
CRI® Group will be vigilant in pursuing and achieving its corporate goals, which include:
- Grow Revenue by 30% p.a. in each of the next five years
- Assisting international and multi-national organizations in developing risk mitigation systems that enable them to remain compliant with national and international regulations while maintaining business ethics and behaviour standards.
- Hiring the most knowledgeable professionals in the industry and equipping them with the training, tools and systems needed to succeed at every level.
- Enhancing and expanding current client service levels to respond to ever-changing market forces in the global marketplace adequately.
- Increasing market share as the CRI® brand expands.
- Increasing corporate profitability through the effective development of new markets, offering new services and being fiscally responsible.
Our team
Kanwal Zafar
Managing director
Zafar I. Anjum
Group CEO
Ashelea Arzadon
Assistant Manager Investigations
Ayesha Syed
Lead Auditor
Huma Khalid
ABAC® Scheme Manager
Soraia Antunes
Chief Marketing Officer
Suhaimi Saad
ABAC® Training Specialist
Nilofar A. Gardezi
HRBP & Associate Director
AFFILIATIONS
CERTIFICATIONS
ACCREDITATIONS
OUR SERVICES
BS 7858:2019 Vetting
CRI® is duly certified by British Standard Institute BSI for the scope of BS 7858:2019 Screening of individuals working in a secure environment, Code of practice (the only BS 7858 certified background screening services provider in...
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COMPLIANCE SOLUTIONS
CRI® Group’s compliance solutions are tailored to your organisation’s needs, helping assure compliance in all areas and keeping you one step ahead of regulatory requirements. Money laundering is a serious global issue and recent legislation is...
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BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS
Background screening investigations are critical to any company’s success because working with qualified, honest, and hard-working employees and other businesses is an integral part of thriving in the business community. What you don’t know can...
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THIRD-PARTY RISK MANAGEMENT
COVID-19 is making many organisations rethink the nature of work, workforces, and workplaces as talent gaps appear, analytics and automation has it traditionally human-performed jobs have to be re-considered. Third parties can play a part...
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ISO STANDARDS: CERTIFICATION & TRAINING
Address compliance, risk & bribery head-on with certification and/or training to ISO standards – protect your people and your business! In this era of cut-throat competition, it is important for every organisation to ensure that...
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INVESTIGATIVE SOLUTIONS
With the help of investigative solutions, CRI® Group’s team of experts can help safeguard your business from unseen threats such as employee fraud, compliance issues, third-party risk factors, and other concerns that can quickly —...
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INSURANCE FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS
Insurance fraud is something that no company can afford. CRI® Group’s investigations cover the full range of insurance fraud cases, from healthcare fraud to disability and even fake death claims. Our experts are trained to...
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Business Intelligence is most effective when it combines data derived from the market in which your business operates (external) with data from within such as financial and operations data (internal). When combined, this data can...
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DUE DILIGENCE 360°
Due diligence on potential business partners, when adding a new vendor or even when hiring a new employee is vital to confirm the legitimacy and reduce the risks associated with such professional relationships. Global integrity...
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EMPLOYEE BACKGROUND CHECKS
How do you know the candidate you just offered a role to is the ideal candidate? Are you 100% sure you know that everything they’re telling you is the truth? 90%? They showed you a...
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