Our client asked us to profile two exporters he suspected of being front companies for firms subjected to trade restrictions by the U.S. government. Through a combination of public records research and interviews in Asia we were able to prove our client’s hypothesis, complete with on-site photographs and fake invoices provided to our representative in Asia. We then used a special-purpose company posing as an importer to buy and ship to the U.S. a small quantity of the offending goods.