A Little Help From My Friends- Employee Theft Investigation

Employee theft is not always about just one employee working alone, as we might be prone to suspecting. All too often we find after we start digging into an employee theft investigation that there are multiple employees that work together to commit their crimes. Sometimes it is even an employee working with a vendor.

It is not uncommon for an employee who is in charge of receiving merchandise deliveries to be approached by the vendor to steal product. A common scheme is for the vendor to work with an employee. When the vendor show up with a merchandise delivery, the employee does not verify that all of the merchandise comes off the truck and enters the store.  That creates an overage on this vendor’s delivery truck, and leaves you with an inventory shortage.

From there, the merchandise is sold through various channels for cash or other goods. The vendor will then give the employee a share of those profits, compensating them for their role in the employee theft.

A variation is that all of the merchandise will actually come off the truck- to appease anyone watching, or any video that might be recording. From there, the employee might stash the merchandise in a trashcan, or in a box and take it outside for the vendor to pick up.

Either way, the employee theft has occurred and it is hard to trace since the invoices have been signed off as a full receipt of product.

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