Corporate Investigations, Asset Protection, Expert Private Investigators in Italy
Detective Agency Ponzi scheme Investigations organizes and coordinates technical corporate defense systems, adopting all possible precautionary defenses. We establish the roles and responsibilities of each employee, assessing their capabilities to identify and eliminate potential weaknesses in corporate security. Crimes such as theft, robbery, extortion, kidnapping for profit, intimidating attacks, and fraud are growing, and our agency, led by expert private investigators, is ready to face these challenges.
The massive and ever-expanding presence of hypermarkets, supermarkets, and other commercial establishments across the country makes these areas attractive to criminals, both during public opening hours and during closing times. Our agency is committed to mitigating these risks, offering customized solutions to protect your business interests.
FRANCO PONZI
From an early age, he was immersed in investigations, developing a passion for the world. He grew up surrounded by the legend of his father Vittorio and his uncle Tom. Franco Ponzi is the only one of the current generation to have worked with Uncle Tom Ponzi, and over the years, as he gained experience, he decided to open his own offices.
With over forty years of experience and a license since 1987, he understood, before anyone else, the importance of having a branch of offices in northern Italy, which would allow him to establish a structured organization that would bring the profession closer to his clients geographically and, above all, an investigative presence in the most industrialized areas of Italy.
Over the years, he has been interviewed by local and national broadcasters including Farete Bologna, Milanow, Tv Parma, Rai 1, Rai 2, and Italia 1, by newspapers and radio stations regarding the nuances of his profession, and as president of the Ponzi Investigazioni Group, a consortium he created in 1998 and distinguishable by its registered trademark.
In 2015 he wrote the book “Seven – The Deadly Sins of a Private Investigator” where he recounts some of his adventures.
Known in the news for having uncovered famous cases of fraud, unfair competition, absenteeism, counter-espionage and theft, he continues today to carry out investigative activities and coordinate the collaborators of the offices present in Northern Italy.
MARCO PONZI
Born and raised with investigations in his blood, having begun collaborating with his father at a young age, he represents the third generation of the Ponzi dynasty in the industry. He began working with his father Franco in 2010, the year he began learning the trade through fieldwork, both in Italy and abroad, demonstrating outstanding investigative skills.
From 2016 to 2019, during his working career, he obtained a degree in Political Science and International Relations.
In 2012, he became a partner of Franco Ponzi's International Ponzi Institute, and since 2015, he has been a partner of Ponzi Fratelli & C. Investigazioni, of which, thanks to his experience, he became the legal representative and license holder in 2023.
OUR HISTORY
- Early 50s: Tom Ponzi began his private investigation career in Milan, bringing in his brother Vittorio. The two ran the Mercurius agency on Corso Sempione together.
- 1958: Vittorio Ponzi decides to found his own detective agency: the International Ponzi Institute, always maintaining close working relationships with his brother Tom Ponzi.
- 1966: Ettore Ponzi founds Hector Ponzi Investigations in Milan
- 1987: Franco Ponzi, Vittorio's eldest son and the only active Ponzi to have collaborated with his famous uncle, becomes the holder of an investigation license and opens the International Ponzi Institute in Reggio Emilia.
- 1992: Franco Ponzi opened Ponzi Investigazioni snc in Parma, continuing to collaborate with his father and paternal uncles.
- 1998: Franco Ponzi takes over his uncle Ettore's business by founding Fratelli Ponzi & C. Investigazioni and maintaining the historic headquarters of the 1966 in Milan at Via Buonarroti 14. That same year, Franco Ponzi opened a new agency in Modena, allowing him to establish the Consortium of Ponzi Investigazioni Group operators, as the creation of a single holding company was prohibited at the time. Thus, a unique group was born, encompassing all the agencies associated with Franco Ponzi.
- 2005: opening of Ponzi Investigazioni Srl with headquarters in Bologna
- 2010: Marco Ponzi begins the third generation Ponzi
- 2023: Marco Ponzi becomes the license holder and legal representative of Ponzi Fratelli & C. Investigations in Milan.
the dynasty
Tom Ponzi
Tommaso "Tom" Ponzi (Pola, September 25, 1921 – Busto Arsizio, May 9, 1997) was an Italian investigator and criminologist. In 1948, Tom founded Mercurius Investigazioni, which the following year was renamed Tom Ponzi Investigations. He quickly achieved international success, working for, among others, Nelson Rockefeller, the Agnellis, Enzo Ferrari, and the Aga Khan.
Tom Ponzi was in many ways the first in Italy to make investigations a high-level profession, moving over the years from matrimonial investigations to more complex industrial, asset, and financial investigations.
According to an interview with Enzo Biagi (see below), Tom Ponzi was initially introduced to his investigative career by the famous photographer Elio Luxardo, who lent him one of his cameras. He became a prefectural official during the Italian Social Republic, from which he was later purged and left jobless.
His first major assignment was for Vittorio Valletta, the then CEO of FIAT, who entrusted him with debt collection and checking the solvency of customers purchasing the first cars.
Private investigations have always been a key area of expertise, and among Tom Ponzi's clients was Aga Khan III, grandfather of the current Karim Aga Khan IV, who strongly doubted the fidelity of his fourth wife. After twenty-three days of surveillance at the Negresco Hotel in Nice, the private investigator's detailed report concluded that Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, Miss France in 1930, was an absolutely faithful wife.
Working for one of the world's richest men significantly increased the detective agency's popularity among the international jet set. In 1949, he was entrusted with his first major case by a major firm, and the press began to take a serious interest in him. Star had discovered that its bouillon cubes were being counterfeited, so it hired Ponzi, who personally followed the van that delivered the "rigged" cubes to the stores and quickly exposed the scammers.
His reputation was further consolidated in all circles, and not just in investigative circles, with another expertly conducted investigation, again in the field of counterfeiting, in this case of Squibb medicines, by a gang operating both in Italy and abroad. He subsequently successfully handled a case involving the counterfeiting of Chanel No. 5 perfume. In 1956, he participated in the liberation of students from the Terrazzano school who had been held hostage by two criminals, entering the building along with worker Sante Zennaro, who died during the operation, and managing to disarm the criminals.
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