History

Established in 1997, ebis quickly became a recognised leader in the fields of cyber crime, fraud investigation and risk management.

In 2001, ebis's assistance was sought by the then newly formed National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) to identify the ringleaders of what was at that time the largest known case of software piracy with criminal revenues exceeding US$ 1 billion.

Following the establishment of the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) ebis was engaged to train ARA's financial investigators and subsequently asked to provide guidance in respect of the acquisition of evidence across international borders. In June 2004 this advice led directly to ARA's first criminal confiscation order.

In 2003 ebis's team were invited by the EU's Justice, Security and Freedom domain to join the final review panel of the CTOSE project which set de facto standards for computer forensics in the EU. Later that year we were invited to talk at the EU's Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy on the subject of intelligence development in the field of shipping fraud.

In 2005 ebis were again invited to join an EU project, on this occasion to run specialist workshops in Bucharest sponsored by Europol and dealing with criminal usage of non-cash payment systems.

ebis have appeared on BBC national news on a number of occasions commenting on issues such as cyber crime and investigated an international lottery fraud which appeared as a feature on BBC national news. We have also featured on the BBC website and various radio stations.

ebis has contributed to, and had published, a number of articles in various industry publications on subjects such as money laundering, employee fraud and other areas of business risk.

Recently ebis has acted for a UK based petroleum company in its dispute over oil joint ventures in Ukraine and also acted for claimants against various high net-worth individuals and a related company in a claim exceeding US$2 billion.

Since its establishment ebis has advised law enforcement agencies in the UK and overseas in relation to the acquisition of evidence and intelligence required to secure convictions against predatory paedophiles, counterfeiters, art thieves and other major criminals and have conducted risk reviews for clients including government ministries, oil and gas companies, financial institutions and pharmaceutical manufacturers.