Reliability and loyalty check of high and low level company officials and employees and business partners

It has been a common practice for long to confidentially check current and future employees and key personnel of companies and government agencies, especially the employees of defence and interior departments and law enforcement agencies. Before 1989 these checks were called “integrity” tests, afterwards they became universally known as “C type” national security checks. In Hungary, the need for these checks arose only after 1989 in the private sector, when the market driven economy took over, Hungarian and foreign capital was concentrated, and the capitalist ventures strengthened their positions on the Hungarian economic scene. On one hand, this caused the formation of myriad companies specialising in property protection and private security services, on the other hand it called for many firms specialising in security consulting and private detection. Nowadays, the situation has changed. Instead of protecting the actual material property of a firm, the priority of company management has become the effective protection of their business secrets and know-how. Therefore they often employ the services of former law enforcement or intelligence officers. In order to ensure the safe day-to-day operation of their firms, almost all foreign-owned multinational companies follow this practice when selecting their security and HR employees.
The slow exit of the state from the economy not only induced the dynamic growth of the security industry but it meant that the need for business intelligence, industrial espionage and consequently counter-intelligence grew even stronger. What can a private detective agency do when a client wants a confidential reliability check of one of their employees or business partners?
In order to keep a company safe and to check the reliability of employees and business partners, virtually every psychological and criminalistic method (including polygraphs and lie detectors) can and should be used. Employees in sensitive positions can be checked in a variety of ways, of which the deep background check or conflict of interest investigation can be especially beneficial as they include the mapping of the current financial situation of the target and checking his or her previous place of employment.
The case is different in case of high level company officials who have already been suspected of leaking business secrets. In situations like this, the experts of the private detective agency – for the best counter-intelligence results – have to use every tactical method and combine them with the appropriate data gathering methods in order to carry out operative actions. What are these? First and foremost, a confidential deep background check is needed, then a planned operative reconnaissance in specific places and times. These efforts are most effective when combined, as this combination can lead to an accurate reconnaissance of the high level company official. In order to prove his or her unreliability, criminal activities or betrayal, the help of informants is often sought out. 
It must be noted that these methods require many years of intelligence experience from the investigators involved, and the above is just the initial set-up phase of an operation.
With the help of carefully selected informants (secret agents), an operative game can be initiated, or an operative trap can be set up, and the employee in question can be caught in the act of handing over information. 
Our detectives and our psychological consulting partner company will work hand in hand in these operative games from the planning to the actual implementation. They are also ready to conduct polygraph tests and carry out full reliability checks on other employees.