Investigative Due Diligence and Risk Intelligence in Egypt
A US manufacturing company approached TDI for a due diligence investigation after its local vendors raised concerns that its primary business agent in Egypt had been accused of corruption. TDI conducted a highly sensitive, source-based compliance risk assessment of the agent to investigate the credibility of the allegations. Our team leveraged access to in-country sources to confidentially obtain firsthand commentary regarding the agent’s reputation, integrity, and professional conduct. To investigate allegations of hidden ownership, we also accessed records that traced the shareholding of the agent’s local firm back to the 1990s.
From this investigation, TDI demonstrated that allegations concerning the agent stemmed from media reports that were politically motivated and not substantiated by fact. As a result, the client was able to determine that the accusations against the agent were not credible and that the agent’s services compared favorably against its competitors in the sector.
