Case Study: Swiss FTS achieves rapid unraveling of a money-laundering scheme with Relativity

Swiss FTS Uses Relativity to Unravel a Money Laundering Scheme

Swiss FTS, a Zurich-based IT forensics and e-discovery partner, was engaged to help a large financial institution assess its liability in a money‑laundering investigation involving roughly 300 account managers, about 300,000 transactions and some 23 million documents over ten years. Facing disparate data sources and the need to understand who knew what and when, Swiss FTS turned to Relativity to shift from a document‑centric review to a people‑ and relationship‑centric investigation.

Using Relativity dynamic objects (RDOs), Swiss FTS modeled accounts, account managers, transactions and client relationships, loaded and linked the 23 million documents, and built a custom Report Builder on top of the Relativity workspace. The Relativity‑based solution delivered a one‑click view of relevant data, enabled investigators to generate tailored reports in weeks rather than months, eliminated juggling multiple spreadsheets, proved scalable across projects, and has produced strong user feedback and measurable efficiency gains during the ongoing investigation.

Swiss FTS

Rogier Teo

Partner of e-Discovery