We document. We don't promise. The report stops exactly where the evidence stops.
Vanguard Asset Relations is a small forensic practice. We document the movement of assets when something has gone wrong — carefully, slowly, with citations — so that victims and their counsel hold a record they can use. We take fewer cases than we are offered. The standard of work is the only thing the firm sells.
These aren't aspirations. They're contractual — written into every engagement letter we sign.
We do not custody, hold, transmit, or broker funds. Recovered assets return through your counsel, the court, or the institution holding them — never through us.
→Documented hourly rates, with a fixed-fee scoping engagement up front. Success fees create a conflict of interest with the integrity of the work, and we don't take them.
→We do not cold-call, DM, or message victims of fraud. If someone claiming to be us reaches out first, it is an impersonator. Verify through this site only.
→We tell you what's likely viable, what isn't, and what we don't know — in writing, before the engagement begins. No firm can guarantee recovery; we don't pretend otherwise.
→A practice this size depends on the people in it. Each member is listed below with credentials and remit.
CFE, CCI. Twelve years in financial crimes investigation, formerly with the Florida Office of Financial Regulation. Leads on-chain tracing engagements and signs the tracing section of every report the firm issues.
CFE, CAMS. Former federal forensic accountant. Specialises in transaction analysis across correspondent banking and MSB networks, and in reconstructing flow through layered fiat structures.
CFE, JD (non-practising). Builds court-admissible documentation packages and oversees report quality control. The firm does not deliver a report she has not read.
CCI. On-chain attribution specialist. Eight years at a major blockchain analytics vendor before joining the practice in 2022. Maintains the firm's chain-of-custody methodology.
CFE. Multi-jurisdictional coordination, MLAT processes, and foreign-counsel liaison across European and APAC jurisdictions. Holds working competence in five languages.
OSINT and counterparty profiling. Joined the practice in 2024 from a regulatory compliance background. Maintains the firm's internal typology library and counterparty index.
Memberships and standards we are bound by, listed plainly. Each is independently verifiable through the issuing body.