Case Studies

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Turning complex facts into clear, evidenced conclusions

The following case studies illustrate the depth and range of Evidentia’s forensic and investigative practice — from procurement fraud and corporate misconduct to digital evidence in criminal litigation.

Case Study 01

Procurement Fraud and Vendor Favouritism in Industrial Contracting

A steel manufacturer suspected that procurement personnel had systematically steered contracts towards preferred vendors — raising concerns about kickbacks, cartelisation, and the acceptance of substandard materials on a critical industrial project.

Scope

Evidentia was retained to conduct a legal and forensic investigation of procurement activities over the relevant review period — covering vendor relationships, contract award processes, document trails, and the chain of technical and financial approvals.

Procedures performed

Transaction-level procurement reviews; examination of RFQs, purchase orders, and approval records; laptop and mailbox forensics; audio recording analysis; bank statement review; discreet field enquiries; and interviews with key personnel.

Critical findings

The procurement process appeared actively compromised rather than merely poorly controlled. Formal steps — including RFQs, comparative statements, and audit clearances — were found, in several instances, to have been used to ratify outcomes that were already substantially pre-decided.
Material of a different grade than specified was supplied and accepted. The deviation was known before dispatch, yet no documented technical approval, deviation note, or formal user-department acceptance was identified. The material subsequently failed in service, necessitating dismantling and rework, with estimated losses of approximately INR 18.75 crore against a procurement value of around INR 1 crore.
Evidence indicated that supplies were routed indirectly through a secondary vendor following difficulties with a disputed supplier — and that procurement personnel were aware of, and may have guided, the concealment of this arrangement from management.

How Evidentia added value

Evidentia moved the client from suspicion to an evidence-backed understanding of the misconduct. The engagement identified the full decision-making chain, connected technical failures to procurement deviations, established the basis for disciplinary, criminal, and contractual action, and exposed systemic weaknesses across procurement, vendor governance, quality approvals, and audit sequencing.

Case Study 02

Business Diversion, Employee Poaching and Confidential Data Misuse

A technology company received whistleblower disclosures alleging that a former senior leader, acting in concert with internal associates, was systematically diverting clients and key employees to a newly established competing venture — while potentially misusing confidential business data to do so.

Scope

Evidentia was engaged to conduct a forensic review and technical analysis of the whistleblower allegations, testing them against market intelligence, electronically stored information, account communications, and internal business records.

Procedures performed

Review of whistleblower disclosures, email communications, and ESI; examination of client-account and SOW renewal records; analysis of resignation-related materials; market intelligence gathering; and assessment of confidential data access.

Critical findings

The whistleblower disclosures were found to be neither isolated nor vague. They pointed to a coordinated effort to migrate existing clients and key employees to a competing business set up by a former senior leader.
Several key customer accounts had unsigned or delayed renewal documentation at the time of the review, creating a material risk that those accounts could be redirected to the competing venture before contracts were formalised.
The former senior leader continued communicating with clients through official channels following departure, raising concerns about conflict of interest, boundary violations, and potential misuse of residual institutional access and influence.
Not every allegation reached conclusive proof. Aspects such as direct client diversion and coordinated employee migration required continued monitoring and further corroboration — an assessment Evidentia communicated clearly to the client.

How Evidentia added value

Evidentia provided a structured factual foundation that distinguished between corroborated risks, watch-list concerns, and unresolved allegations. This enabled the client to pursue informed legal strategy, cease-and-desist action, client-retention measures, employee risk management, and governance corrections — with a clear map of where further evidence collection was still needed.

Case Study 03

Digital Evidence Review in Cybercrime Litigation

In serious criminal proceedings involving alleged online circulation of intimate content, the client required an independent technical assessment of whether the prosecution’s digital evidence actually established a reliable and defensible chain linking the accused to the alleged conduct.

Scope

Evidentia was engaged to carry out a fact-finding and digital forensic review of the technical evidence relied upon in the chargesheet — including URLs, video files, metadata, alleged social media activity, cloud access, and the internal consistency of the prosecution’s theory.

Procedures performed

Review of FIR, chargesheet, and prosecution materials; platform responses; panchanama records; Telegram chat forensics; examination of 105 URLs and 35 video files; website infrastructure analysis; metadata examination; and superimposition of forensic findings on the prosecution timeline.

Critical findings

Of the 105 URLs cited, a significant number were duplicates. The remaining unique URLs mapped to a small set of websites, and only a portion could be technically correlated to the video files produced for examination — revealing gaps in the URL-to-file linkage that the prosecution had not addressed.
Metadata analysis revealed inconsistencies with the alleged offence period: creation and cropping timestamps predated the alleged circulation window, and file modifications occurred after the accused’s arrest — patterns inconsistent with the prosecution narrative.
No technical linkage was established between the alleged Telegram communications and the examined video files. The alleged iCloud retrieval theory was similarly unsupported by forensic corroboration.
The record did not identify the uploading accounts, the actors responsible for post-arrest file modifications, or the mechanism through which later distributors obtained the material. These constituted material investigative gaps requiring focused supplemental examination.

How Evidentia added value

Evidentia converted a technically complex and emotionally charged prosecution into a structured digital evidence assessment. The engagement identified gaps in attribution, timeline, metadata integrity, file duplication, and platform linkage — equipping the client with an independent forensic basis to challenge overbroad assumptions and present the court with a technically grounded alternative analysis of the evidence.

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