Financial Times: Virtually no hiding place from long arm of computer detectives
“…fraud investigation is to turn on a “smoking gun” document…,”: “I am becoming sick and tired about lying about the extent of our reserves issues.”
By Bob Sherwood
Published: August 19 2004
If a commercial court battle, employee discrimination case or fraud investigation is to turn on a “smoking gun” document, the chances are it will have been recovered from a computer.
Oft-quoted statistics claim that about 90 per cent of documents generated by a business are created and stored electronically. Up to 70 per cent of them are never printed as a hard copy.
The value of searching for the killer e-mail has been demonstrated in a number of recent cases. Frank Quattrone, the most prominent investment banker of the internet era, was found guilty in the US in May of covering up an investigation into hot stock offerings at Credit Suisse First Boston, his former employer, at the height of the bull market. read more
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