A practical guide to how a search for a fleeing debtor is conducted, which tools are lawful, and how it connects to debt-enforcement proceedings under the LEF.
Read the case fileOSINT means intelligence from open sources. Behind the acronym lies very practical work: finding a debtor, discovering who is behind a company, reconstructing an estate, exposing a scam, measuring how exposed a business is online. Here is what an OSINT analyst does, when you need one and what they cannot do.
Read the case fileBellinzona is the capital of Ticino and the southern gateway to the Gotthard. Requests from the Bellinzonese have a different profile from those in Lugano: inheritances involving houses and land, debtors who move north of the Gotthard, checks on builders and business partners, family matters. Here is how I work here, what I do, what I don't and what it costs.
Read the case fileOSINT, HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, GEOINT, MASINT, SOCMINT, FININT: acronyms ending in -INT tell you where a piece of information comes from. Here is what each one means, which historical episodes they come from, and which of them a private investigator in Switzerland may lawfully use.
Read the case fileLugano is Ticino's business hub, and the requests that come from here have a clear profile: companies, fiduciaries, partners to vet, debtors who disappear, contested inheritances. Here is how I work in the Lugano area, what I can do, what I do not do and what it costs.
Read the case fileA 28-year-old researcher at Irkutsk's anti-plague institute died on 2 October. Moscow speaks of pneumonia of unknown origin, the press of pneumonic plague. Separating facts from rumours, with an investigator's method.
Read the case fileWhy do people cheat? Research identifies eight recurring motivations, with some differences between men and women. And in Switzerland, since 2000, fault no longer counts in divorce: when an investigation still makes sense, and when it does not.
Read the case fileHow private investigation agencies are regulated in Ticino, what they can and cannot legally do, and how to check in two minutes whether one is actually licensed.
Read the case fileWhen you actually need a private investigator in Ticino, what it costs, what the final report contains, and how the evidence holds up before a Swiss court.
Read the case fileLimits, obligations and rights of those who conduct — and those who are subject to — observation: a basic guide for individuals and businesses.
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