Every engagement follows the same four-stage protocol — designed to produce admissible documentation, not promises of recovery.
A confidential review of your situation, transaction history, and communications. We tell you within seven days whether forensic work is viable — and decline cases that aren't.
Investigators map the movement of funds across wallets, accounts, exchanges, and intermediaries — preserving timestamps, hashes, and chain of custody at every step.
Patterns are reconstructed against known typologies, sanctions data, and disclosed counterparties. Findings are cross-referenced and peer-reviewed before they're written down.
You receive a court-ready forensic report with appendices, suitable for handoff to counsel, regulators or law enforcement. We support your team — we don't replace them.
Hover or tap a stage to inspect what we record at each step. Hashes, timestamps and custodian initials follow each artefact from intake through delivery.
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We do not name clients. These are sanitised summaries of work whose conclusions are part of the public record — court filings, regulatory orders, or published opinions.
Reconstructed 19 months of fund flows across 4 exchanges and 11 self-custody wallets. Findings supported a $4.2M civil restitution order in the Southern District of Florida.
Provided tracing and sworn declarations to a Tokyo-appointed receiver coordinating with counterparties in three jurisdictions. Estate proceeds returned through the receiver, never through us.
Attribution analysis across two cross-chain bridges and a mixing service, packaged for federal referral. Cited in a published advisory on attribution methodology.
Mapped 3,400 wires across 9 institutions; identified five intermediaries previously undisclosed. Methodology adopted into a regulator's documentation standard.
We do a small number of things, in depth. Each engagement results in documentation a court, regulator or counsel can rely on.
Multi-jurisdictional tracing of fiat and digital assets through wallets, accounts, and intermediaries.
Pattern reconstruction against known fraud typologies, regulatory data, and disclosed counterparties.
Court-admissible reports with sworn declarations, exhibits and chain of custody — handoff-ready for counsel.
We don't publish client names. These are attributed quotes from the attorneys, regulators and trustees who've carried our reports into proceedings.
The chain-of-custody documentation was the cleanest forensic exhibit we've put in front of a Florida court in five years.
Carried Vanguard's evidence package through a $4.2M civil restitution matter, S.D. Florida.
What stood out was what they declined to claim. The report stopped exactly where the evidence stopped.
Cross-border digital-asset estate, 2024. Vanguard provided tracing & declarations.
They are quiet, slow, and citation-led. Three things our regulator-side work depends on.
Multi-year coordination on documentation standards for consumer-fraud reporting.
Every credential below is verifiable on the public registry of its issuing body. Ask your counsel to confirm — we expect them to.
Three lead investigators credentialed by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Specialist on-chain forensic certification for digital asset tracing.
Licensed and bonded under FL Department of Agriculture, Division of Licensing.
Members trained under federal anti-money-laundering guidance for documentation work.
$5M errors-and-omissions coverage through Lloyd's of London syndicate.
If a firm can't answer these clearly, walk away. The recovery industry is full of impersonators — protect yourself.
No, never. We are a forensic investigation firm. Any funds recovered are returned through your counsel, the court, or the responsible exchange or financial institution. If a firm asks you to send them money or assets to "facilitate" recovery, that is itself a fraud.
No. We charge documented hourly rates for forensic work, with a fixed-fee scoping engagement up front. Success fees create a conflict of interest with the integrity of the investigation, and we don't take them under any circumstances.
Absolutely not. No legitimate firm can guarantee recovery — recovery depends on whether assets still exist, jurisdictional cooperation, and court process. We document. We do not promise outcomes.
If someone claiming to be us has reached out to you first — by DM, email, phone, or social — it is not us. Vanguard does not cold-contact victims of fraud. Verify through this website only, and report impersonators to impersonation@vanguardar.com.
Independently. Look up our state license on the FDACS public registry, our CFE numbers on the ACFE registry, and ask your attorney to verify our insurance certificate directly with the issuer. Trust verification, not us.
If you've experienced asset loss, the first step is a confidential intake. We respond within five business days with a clear statement of whether forensic work is viable — and what it would cost.