Brazil Raids Kroll Offices in SpyProbe

[IChing]

Police raided the Brazilian offices of international security consultant Kroll Inc. and arrested five employees Wednesday in an investigation into allegations of illegal spying by Kroll during the company's probe of a nasty corporate dispute.
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ive Brazilians Kroll workers were arrested on conspiracy charges. Kroll is owned by U.S. insurance giant Marsh & McLennan Cos., which is engulfed in a scandal involving alleged bid rigging and price fixing.
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The investigation began in July after Brazil's largest newspaper reported Kroll obtained copies of e-mails written by a top adviser to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the course of its investigation for Brasil Telecom Participacoes SA.

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Marsh & McLennan chairman and chief executive Jeffrey W. Greenberg resigned Monday, less than two weeks after the company was accused by New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of forcing businesses to pay more than necessary for property and casualty insurance.
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[Sara Beverley]

1. Gosh, at one time I held Kroll stock when they were a "clean" company.

the merger happened and now they are caught up in a scandal. Luckily for me that I sold my shares at a nice profit.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Update: Kroll defends employees arrested in corporate espionage case

Kroll defends employees arrested in corporate espionage case
ALAN CLENDENNING, AP Business Writer

Thursday, October 28, 2004

(10-28) 08:07 PDT SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) --

Marsh & McLennan Cos.' Kroll Inc. took out ads in Brazil's largest newspapers Thursday to defend five employees arrested amid allegations the international security consultant illegally spied in its probe of a bitter corporate dispute.

Kroll, whose offices were raided by police a day earlier, insisted it broke no Brazilian laws and expressed confidence the arrested employees, including two who head the company's Brazil operations, would soon be cleared.

"The company never used practices that break Brazilian laws, such as telephone bugging or hacking," the company announced in an ad on the front page of Folha de S. Paulo that was placed prominently in the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper.

Police investigating Kroll seized computers, documents and "sophisticated electronic eavesdropping equipment" in five cities in an operation dubbed "Operation Jackal."
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