BACKGROUND CHECKS

We offer background checks on individuals and business entities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. In Belarus we offer only a limited number of services. For more information, contact us.

Here are the main points that you need to know before considering ordering an investigation.

• If you never personally met the person whom you are trying to check, please visit our ScamBusters page first

• Full-scale backgrounds checks take time and planning. Even with the simplest investigation such as Address Bureau Check, for example, you can count on at least 2-3 business days processing time. Employment checks and marital records checks, for example, often take 1-2 weeks to perform.

• Russian and Ukrainian investigations will take several times as long than a similar investigation in Western countries, and may cost several times as much . Why?

  • Both Russia and Ukraine are divided in a number of sections called "oblast," republics, and autonomic areas, which are like states or parishes. For example, Russia has 89 of these states. Ukraine has 26. Each state is broken into numerous counties (called "rayion").

  • Each oblast or republic has a complicated system of state and local governments, each collecting and maintaining various databases related to its function.

  • Federal agencies such as the visa and passport service or the tax collection service have local offices that also rarely share information between themselves. In short, there are very few centralized federal databases that would collect information of about state residents, most of those databases are restricted access. Accessing then takes time and effort.  

  • Russian and Ukrainian governments (especially local ones) are not quite as modernized as their Westerner / European counterparts, although they are catching up. 

• Obtaining OFFICIALLY DOCUMENTED information is even more difficult. If you need actual copies of records of any kind, please make sure to communicate this to us before the actual work process begins. Unfortunately, obtaining the official records will likely be more costly.

• If you plan to use any of the documents obtained through us in a court of law, please discuss those plans with us, as there may be additional steps you may have to take to obtain those documents in a way that will follow the laws set by your court.

• Surveillance service is very frequently requested, but the costs of this service are pretty prohibitive. In fact, surveillance is the most expensive way to obtain information, averaging about $40-$50 per hour, but not necessarily the most effective way (depending on the goal of the investigation, of course). It is also a difficult-to-provide service, so many investigators do not offer this service at all. We always seek other ways to obtain information first. 

• Russian Detective is not a detective agency. We just locate the investigators in Russia and contract their services on your behalf. As contractors, the investigators set their own schedules, prices, and rules. We will have to consult with the local investigators before providing you with any price estimates or investigation plans. All the back-and-forth discussions between the client, RD, and the investigators take time. 

• Russian Detective does not disclose the name of the actual customer to the local investigators.

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