Control Risks Group enables its clients to operate successfully in hostile and complex business environments. It provides risk analysis, due diligence, fraud prevention and investigation, security consultancy and crisis management. It assists clients in developing good governance programmes, supporting human rights and combating corruption. The group has offices in the US, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, China, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico, Brazil and Russia. It also works extensively in Africa. The company was formed in 1975 and is independent and majority employee-owned.