Kroll Inc.

Kroll Inc. was founded in 1972 by Jules B. Kroll as a private investigation and security firm. Since then, it has expanded into all areas of corporate risk mitigation including background screening, forensic accounting, bodyguard services, corporate restructuring, and technology services.

Business

The US government and the weapons industry is a major permanent contractor of the company. Further insurances and banking business often makes use of the offers. Kroll is the official security and bodyguard company for all American presidents since World War II.

Kroll was responsilbe for the whole security of the WTC until it went down in the 9/11 attacks. Local security boss John O’Neill had those job only for about a month and was one of the victims of the incident. He was a well known expert on terrorism and as well as the buildings themselves, having researched the 1993 bombing while employed by the FBI.

In 2002, Kroll acquired Kelly McCann's firm Crucible Security Services. McCann is now Senior Vice President of Krolls security services and training departments.

Kroll was acquired by professional services firm Marsh & McLennan Companies in July 2004, for 1.9 billion US dollars. Lead on the Marsh side as chariman and CEO was Jeffrey W. Greenberg, the son of AIG CEO Maurice R. Greenberg, but had to resign from his posts at Marsh on Octrober 25, 2004 in favour of Michael G. Cherkasky which formerly was with Kroll.

In October 2004, Brasil offices of Kroll Inc. were raided by the police because of supposed spying activities on the government.

...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...

The Brasil company claimed it had to pay too much money when buying a fixed line company from Telecom Italia.

See also

• Securacom

External

• Corporate website
• Who Killed John O'Neill?, movie on 9/11 CIA background structure, suggesting that Kroll is tightly bound to the CIA due beeing a AIG founding and by its heads