- Carratu international plc
Carratu International was set up in 1963 by Vincent Carratu as a corporate investigations company. As such it is the oldest privately owned corporate investigations company in the UK. Since 1963 it has expanded its service base to include employee screening, through its Bad Apple Services, as well as computer forensics. The company is now run by Vincent Carratu’s son, Paul Carratu and based in
Cheam ,Surrey . Paul Carratu is currently the President of the UK Chapter of theAssociation of Certified Fraud Examiners [http://www.acfeuk.co.uk] . The company previously traded as The Carratu International Group Limited until August 2001, when it changed it’s name and reclassified as a Plc.Business
The company has a general corporate investigations practice, but has a number of key specialisms, including the protection of
intellectual property (attacking counterfeiting and piracy and protectingtrademarks ), an anti-fraud unit, a specialist employeevetting service, Bad Apple Services and acomputer forensics unit.History
The company has been involved in a number of high-profile matters, including the UK investigation of
Claus von Bülow and acting for a number of governments,FTSE 100 companies and celebraties. Unlike a number of other investigation companies, Carratu International do not put their clients names into the public domain and are notoriously discreet about their client's identities.Fact|date=April 2008External links
*Carratu International Corporate website: [http://www.carratu.com]
*Bad Apple Services vetting site: [http://www.badappleservices.com]
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