damages

The annual damage caused by corruption in Germany is estimated at more than 400 billion euros. Middle and senior management in particular is the driving force behind corruption. Corruption is a creeping process that begins at the lowest level of a company. In order to obtain information and spy on the company, employees are infiltrated who can, for example, take over infrastructural tasks. Here, the position of a porter, a cleaner or canteen staff should be mentioned, who specifically spy out where the further steps of corruption should start. If this information is available, the spying on the company takes place in more sensitive areas. Here, persons are infiltrated primarily in management levels as assistants. These persons collect targeted information about the company's employees in order to select suitable target persons for strategic collusion. External service providers such as interpreters or IT service providers can also collect sensitive [...]