Vantage Point


Explore insights and expertise from our boutique firm, where seasoned professionals tackle complex cases with bespoke solutions, tenacity, and precision. From fraud and asset recovery to sports and disputes, we deliver successful outcomes through dedicated, high-quality work.

 
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Special Briefing: Investigating Fraud - Insights from a Successful Recovery

Investigating Fraud: Crystal Vantage reveals crucial insights from a successful multimillion-euro solar panel recovery case. Our special briefing highlights the strategic imperative of pursuing assets before fraudsters, leveraging location intelligence, and acting with speed. Discover how our investigators traced stolen merchandise to a container terminal bound for West Africa through methodical fieldwork and tactical intervention. For financial fraud, learn our proven approach to mapping money flows beyond initial transactions. With fraud now the UK's most prevalent crime, our briefing demonstrates how rapid, nimble investigation makes the critical difference between recovery and irretrievable loss.

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The Era of Mobile Spyware

The Era of Mobile Spyware: Crystal Vantage Special Briefing reveals how advanced surveillance technology can silently access everything on your device—messages, photos, location—without detection. Our cybersecurity experts examine the regulatory gaps, warrant issues, and practical protection strategies in this rapidly evolving threat landscape. Essential reading for professionals handling sensitive data.

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Encouraging Whistleblowers To Report Corporate Fraud

Whistleblower Protection: Crystal Vantage explores how competent investigators are critical for encouraging reporting of corporate fraud. Our special briefing examines evolving legislation across the UK, EU, and US—highlighting how recent EU directives provide broader protections than UK laws. Discover our framework for handling whistleblower information securely and effectively, from confidential reporting mechanisms to skilled investigation techniques that build trust and uncover wrongdoing while protecting these vital sources of intelligence.

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Special Briefing: Asset Tracing & UBO Disclosure

Asset Tracing Breakthrough: Crystal Vantage's Special Briefing reveals how new UBO disclosure rules provide unprecedented transparency for asset recovery. Discover how public registries across the EU expose hidden ownership structures, helping creditors pierce through complex offshore arrangements. Our intelligence experts explain how these regulations transform investigation strategies—from identifying concealed assets to leveraging compliance penalties against evasive debtors.

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Building and Winning Crypto Cases

Crypto Investigations & Recovery: Crystal Vantage's special briefing explores winning strategies for cryptocurrency fraud cases in the wake of FTX's collapse. Learn how our investigators trace stolen digital assets through blockchain analysis and obtain court-ordered disclosure from exchanges. Discover why cryptocurrency is not a "parallel universe" but subject to terrestrial legal systems, and how we identify viable recovery targets—from exchanges and financial institutions to promoters with attachable non-crypto assets. Our briefing outlines key approaches for building strong cases, gathering evidence, and securing funding for complex crypto litigation where traditional recovery methods meet cutting-edge digital investigation techniques.

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Cyber-assisted Investigations

Cyber-Assisted Investigations: Crystal Vantage reveals how digital intelligence transforms modern investigation tactics. Our special briefing explores advanced technologies for tracking subjects through their digital footprints—from precision geolocation that pinpoints devices within buildings to dark web crawling for leaked documents and AI-powered pattern recognition that uncovers hidden connections between people, assets, and locations. Discover how our lawful cyber tools, combined with traditional intelligence gathering methods, create admissible evidence for litigation and powerful insights previously unattainable in complex investigations.

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An Interview with Erika O'Leary

Erika is a specialist investigator with a powerful fusion of law and intelligence. She runs contentious investigations spanning from fraud to sports corruption and wrongdoing. Here, she shares insights from her unique perspective.

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Video: How to uncover stories, information and witnesses

Sam Holder is a national news broadcaster and journalist with a passion and specialism in witness interviewing and story building. He has travelled far and wide to cover everything from breaking crime stories to corporate malfeasance. Sam is a natural conversationalist with a particular knack for talking to witnesses.

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Cryptocurrency Claims and Recovery Service

We assist investors to recover losses from disreputable cryptocurrency outfits.  These include: Fake ICOs, Crypto scams, Rug pulling, Misrepresented opportunities, Fraudulent cryptocurrency projects, Wrongdoing by cryptocurrency businesses and businesspeople.

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Welcome to Vantage Point

At Vantage Point, you will regularly be able to read about unique developments, capabilities, strategies and case studies for investigations in the legal space.

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