The head of the detective agency is a licensed private detective, Alexey Ivanovich Sedykh. You can read more about the director, the agency, and our media publications on the “About the Agency” page.
You can make sure that we have a license at the first meeting, where we always show our documents or during a video call (for regions), as well as right now by clicking on the link to any site for checking counterparties, such as RusProfile, under “Licenses” or at RosGuard website. In the search bar, enter the detective’s INN.
Beware of scammers!
More than 90% of the detective services market today is represented by persons who call themselves detectives, but do not have a license to carry out detective activities and are not even registered as an individual entrepreneur. According to the Russian legislation, a private detective must be registered as an individual entrepreneur – p.4 art.1.1 Law of the Russian Federation of 11.03.1992 No. 2487-1 “On Private Detective and Security Activities in the Russian Federation”:
4) private detective – a citizen of the Russian Federation, registered as an individual entrepreneur, who has obtained a license to carry out private detective (investigative) activities in accordance with the procedure established by this Law, and who provides the services stipulated in part two of Article 3 of this Law;
In some regions of the Russian Federation the situation reaches absurdity, when in the advertising search results of Yandex and Google out of 5 ads for detective services four lead to the sites of false detectives, fraudsters who take from citizens prepayment for services and stop responding to calls, messages.
Be careful and only contact licensed private detectives!
Beware of scammers! How to check the reliability of a detective before ordering?
Detective activity in the Russian Federation is a licensed activity. Check the availability of a private detective license before starting work.
The head of the detective agency “Panther” is a licensed private detective Sedych Alexey Ivanovich. You can easily see if we are licensed by going to link to the website of the Russian Federal Guard of the Russian Federation. In the search bar, enter the detective's last name or TIN.
Check licenseIn accordance with the current legislation, a private detective is an individual entrepreneur who carries out this activity as the main activity (part 3 of article 7 of Law of the Russian Federation of 11.03.1992 № 2487-1 “On private detective and security activities in the Russian Federation”).
Code of the main type of activity in accordance with OKVED classifier - 80.30 (investigation activities).
Check OKVEDCheck the agency's phone number in the GetContact and NumBuster apps. This is free of charge. This way you will accomplish two things: first, make sure that there is no negative information about the prospective service provider; second, make sure that he is really a private investigator, and not a cab driver who decided that he can do detective work.
More about the agencyEveryone knows that positive reviews can be easily faked, but there are 2 important nuances that you should keep in mind: first - the absence of negative reviews in the presence of neutral and positive - this is a good sign, because it is very difficult, and often impossible to remove negative reviews in the services of the same “Yandex”.
Second - pay attention to the content of reviews, their frequency and period of publication. This will help you identify a “one-day” company.
Feedback from our customersA final point that is less relevant to vetting a potential performer for the role of detective. But it is important at the stage of communication with him. If in the course of a telephone conversation you are told that the contract in view of the specifics of the order is not concluded or (even worse) private detective is not ready for a personal meeting or video call, with a high probability in front of you a fraudster.
Our agency concludes a contract on the provision of detective services with each client.
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