April. 2003

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The book <Investigation Starting> is publishing by Legal Publishing House now, it will be appeared publicly before June 30, 2003.

April 16, 2003, Steele President, Mr. Yang Hai was invited to attend enterprisers’ symposium with a topic of “Optimizing Capital Development Environment”, which was held in No.4 meeting room of Beijing Municipal Political Consultative Committee.

On February 20, 2003, The Journalist, Brook Larmer of the USA magazine <Newsweek> interviewed Steele president, Mr. Yang Hai by phone and the interview article <Sleuth to hire> was published on March 24, 2003.

Steele President summarized the rules of collecting and using enterprises’ information with his rich experience on business investigation: “Collecting legally and using scientifically”, he stands for obtaining enterprises’ information legally, using the information correctly after analysis the information.

Steele concerns the employees’ health as the most important thing, and held all kinds of activities termly, also purchased many medicines to prevent spring diseases.

<Several Advices about Using Simple Way of Handing Public Prosecution Cases> was put in practice on March 14, 2003, which was made by The Supreme People’s Court, The Supreme People’s Procuratorate and Judiciary Department. Once tried out, Chong Qing City will start using, a case can be handled in 10 minutes under peccavi.

On March 9, 2003, Export and Import Equity Trade Department of Commercial Affairs Ministry, Zhejiang Ci Xing Group, Wan Xian Group and other 53 Axletree Enterprises got the formal news from USA : The Chinese Axletree Dumping Case was untenable, the case was finished by “Zero Damage”. It means Chinese enterprises won the first anti-dumping case in USA this year since China had been the formal member of WTO.    

On April 16, 2003, Free Document Office was opened in every town, streets and its offices, committees and bureaus under the Beijing Government’s request, all kinds of governmental documents both in Chinese and English Version should be put in offices, citizens can take by ID certificate. According to rules, the governmental documents will appear publicly the second day after come on.  

March 22, 2003, Dr. Tom Leamon was invited as the visiting professor of Industrial Engineer Department of Tsinghua University . Dr. Tom Leamon is Vice President of USA Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, Superintendent of Liberty Security Research Office. Liberty Mutual Insurance Group is one of the biggest of Multi-Assets and Accident Insurance Companies.

German Allianz Insurance Group is the first foreign insurance company got permission to establish its property insurance branch company in China since China being a member of WTO, and its Guangzhou Branch is running.

The USA headquarter of A Company got the report from representative of its China Office that one business manager revealed company’s confidential business information, and then trusted its Commercial Security Consultant --- Beijing Steele Business Investigation Center to investigate the affair at once.

Steele collected all the information of China Office of A Company from all aspects and did a thoughtful investigation plan, and then assigned two experienced investigators did the field investigation.

Only three days, Steele Investigators found out all facts of the affair and submitted an investigation report to the USA headquarter. The Headquarter adopted the measures in time, so the potential and current business risk was prevented and controlled effectively.

Hire a CPA to examine books

IHave a written code of ethics

Adequately secure inventory and supplies

Have reasonable expectations

Give employees a way to report fraud

Restrict bank account access

Perform regular bank reconciliations     

Set a good example

Adequately prescreen employee applicants 

Treat employees well

Information: Knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance.

Intelligence：The evaluated conclusions drawn from such information.

During investigation, investigators get the information, and then get intelligence after analysis useful information. Intelligence includes inner intelligence and exterior intelligence, inner intelligence is employees’ work status, exterior intelligence is circs for company’s external decision-making. Exterior intelligence includes client’s intelligence, competitor intelligence and risk intelligence according to different collective subject.  

The fourth part of < The Present Age International Trade Shipping Law Sutra Chefoeuvre> is the authoritative monograph in the world. The context information and related legal problem of all kinds of insurance articles are explained in details. Most of insurance articles were translated in Chinese first time, e.g. regular insurance article of association port policy, regular insurance article of association container, risk insurance article of association shipping dockyard, and etc. The Writer Mr. N. Geoffrey Hudson is the Vice president of British Maritime Law Association, president of Association of British Average Adjuster, President of Association of International European Average Adjuster, Commissioner of International Average Committee, he is also a famous lawyer and Average Adjuster Consultant.  

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