Gabrielyan & Partners Detective Bureau has been operating in the Republic of Armenia for three years now. Founded in 2021, the Bureau is the first and only organisation engaged in detective work in the Republic of Armenia.
Gabrielyan & Partners Detective Bureau is a member of the World Association of Detectives and coordinates the Association’s work in the South Caucasus and Central Asia. The Bureau provides the services listed below not only in Armenia but also in some 160 member and partner countries of the Association.
Gabrielyan & Partners Detective Bureau conducts investigations exclusively through OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) — intelligence methods based on open, publicly available sources — in line with the requirements of Armenia’s Law on Personal Data Protection.
Today OSINT technologies are used to solve both commercial and state-level problems.
The main advantage of OSINT — using information gathered from open, public sources — is that the information obtained can later be legalised, because everything collected is available in the boundless space of the internet.
The key is finding that information. The Bureau can find it because, as a member of the World Association of Detectives, it has access to many information systems.
Here is the list of services offered by Gabrielyan & Partners Detective Bureau:
For companies:
- assessing the legal and financial integrity of business partners, including analysis of the personal and professional profile of partner companies’ executives;
- employee integrity checks and verification of existing information;
- gathering information and verifying data on counterparties, partners and competitors;
- competitor intelligence: identifying weaknesses in a company’s operations, determining the scale of its business, locating branches, studying its external and internal organisational structure and HR policy, and analysing its market position;
- information and legal support when acquiring stakes in a business, concluding contracts and commercial deals, verifying information provided by a partner (previous shareholders, the real reasons for a sale, financial or legal problems, etc.) — due diligence;
- confirming that a company’s phone numbers and addresses match its actual location;
- verifying and authenticating documents;
- monitoring companies’ creditworthiness;
- resolving copyright and related-rights issues;
- investigating debtor clients to identify possible sources of recovery;
- competitive business intelligence and prevention of industrial espionage;
- detecting and identifying affiliated companies;
- verifying information submitted by buyers and bidders in procurement tenders;
- corporate, insurance and financial investigations;
- uncovering facts and circumstances of illegally obtained or misused loans;
- detecting fraudulent bankruptcy;
- support in negotiations on problem cases with various organisations and with state and public bodies;
- installing, upgrading and configuring information and technical security systems; protecting computer networks with modern tools;
- sweeping offices, business premises and vehicles to detect and neutralise devices planted for illegal information gathering;
- help in building preventive systems, targeted protection and risk reduction in the company’s core business;
- assistance with enforcing contractual obligations and recovering property;
- auditing existing security systems and setting up an effective, modern security system;
- outsourced security services: 24/7 video surveillance, modern alarm systems and rapid response teams, as well as physical security provided by guards;
- bodyguard and premium transport services and security during travel to partner countries;
- legal assistance if problems arise during travel to partner countries;
- assistance with problems involving law enforcement during travel to partner countries.
For private clients:
- checking information about a person;
- monitoring a minor’s behaviour and preventing unlawful acts on their part;
- checking information on household staff (drivers, nannies, cleaners, etc.);
- tracing debtors and missing persons;
- private investigations into unlawful acts involving fraud, theft, cryptocurrencies and financial pyramids, and help in taking the information gathered to law enforcement;
- advice on social media account security; tracing and identifying the authors of anonymous letters;
- assistance with vehicle purchases, verifying information provided by the seller (previous owners, the real reasons for the sale, accidents, insurance or legal problems, etc.);
- assistance with property purchases, verifying information provided by the seller (previous occupants, the real reasons for the sale, information about the neighbours, legal problems, etc.);
- sweeping apartments, hotel rooms and vehicles to detect and neutralise devices planted for illegal information gathering;
- bodyguard services and security during travel to partner countries;
- assistance if problems arise during travel to partner countries;
- assistance with problems involving law enforcement during travel to partner countries.
Read at the source (in Armenian): Private investigation in Armenia: a new service in the security sector