You are being consulted as a young forensic investigator. Here are the facts: Your client, Mr....

You are being consulted as a young forensic investigator. Here are the facts:

Your client, Mr. Clean, comes to you with the following true story.

Mr. Clean owned with a partner, Mr. Dirty, a coin-operated laundry. Mr. Dirty recently passed away and his family discovered over $1,000,000 worth of coins in Mr.Dirty's two-bedroom apartment. Mr. Clean is astounded to hear this and immediately goes back to the business to check some business statistics that he heretofore never bothered checking and discovered that indeed for the past 20 years of their partnership a material amount of income was missing each week.
Mr. Clean assumes that Mr. Dirty's $1.0 million plus of coins and the statistics of missing money at the business is no coincidence...Mr. Dirty's coins were stolen from the business by Mr. Dirty.
The problem - how to prove this to be the truth? How to prove that Mr. Dirty did it? In order for Mr. Clean to have a claim on his insurance policy and on Mr. Dirty's estate, some amount of proof is needed.

Try to propose answers to the following questions:

What sort of statistics at the business did Mr. Clean look at to see that money was missing every week?
What steps could you undertake to prove that Mr. Dirty stole the money? In other words, what types of evidence could you develop that points the finger at Mr. Dirty in a way that would convince most people that Mr. Dirty did steal the money from the business. REMEMBER: CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE IS OFTEN HOW FRAUD IS PROVEN.

Expert Solution

The biggest argument here is that Mr. Dirty had $1.0 Million in coins in his two bedroom apartment. This is huge money to have in coins, and a person can only have such amount of money in coins if he is working at a place where coins is the only mode of payment.

This is justifiable as Mr. Dirty and Mr. Clean were running a coin-operated laundry. So if the Ledger books and financial statements for the laundry show $1.0 Million money unaccountable or unequal split, there is a possibility that Mr.Dirty took the laundry's money in an illegitimate manner.

Also if the account books don't show a discrepancy, then Mr. Clean would have to track the money generated by laundry through the machines, as every individual machine has its own status of how many times each machine has been run. If the machine records and the money on papers do not match than also it could turn in favour of Mr. Clean.

Thus, this circumstantial evidence would be enough to keep things in favour of Mr.Clean.

keosha answered 1 year ago

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