Altia builds presence in Latin America Peru’s Ministerio Publico has adopted Altia’s suite of financial investigation and analysis software to speed up complex financial investigations and strengthen its prosecutions service.

The Ministry, based in Lima, has a huge and diverse remit, equivalent to the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service but with added responsibility for tax investigations and asset recovery.

The department handles thousands of cases per year, encompassing major investigations into fraud perpetrated by organised criminal gangs, plus money laundering and tax evasion probes. The department also brings prosecutions for these crimes. The Ministry has overall responsibility for public prosecutions and tax investigations.

This year Altia has once again sent a team to Latin America to ensure that its customers are supported in the use of its software and obtaining maximum benefit from the full range of functions offered by the Investigation Toolkit and Financial Analysis Toolbar.

Lucia Nunovero, Manager of the Office for Strategic Criminal Analysis, says:

“We chose Investigation Toolkit and Financial Analysis Toolbar due to Altia’s specialized focus on investigations management and because the products were recommended by the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service, based on their long relationship with Altia.

The new software enables us to optimize time spent by prosecutors and administrative staff and ensure that a higher proportion of cases result in a prosecution. In the past we have not been able to automate processes and have had to deal with huge volumes of paper-based data. The technology enables us to speed up our investigations, use our staff’s capabilities more effectively and create a robust, evidence-based case which is far more likely to result in a conviction.

To be more specific it allows us to reduce by a considerable amount the time spent on organized crime cases that involve more than 30 or 40 suspects. For instance, investigations like these often take more than five months and involve several of our analysts to process the information. By using this software, we can achieve a far more accurate result in just a month or six weeks.”

Altia’s Investigation Toolkit ensures accuracy and consistency in financial investigations, offering significant time savings compared with manual approaches.

Financial Analysis Toolbar speeds up the process of interrogating financial data. It simplifies the process

of extracting evidence from a portfolio of financial data, based on pre-set queries.