Mumbai formerly known as Bombay is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million. Along with the neighbouring urban areas, including the cities of Navi Mumbai and Thane, it is one of the most populous urban regions in the world.Mumbai lies on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2009, Mumbai was named an Alpha world city. Mumbai is also the richest city in India, and has the highest GDP of any city in South, West or Central Asia.

Appin's purpose is to help companies establish well-organised intelligence capabilities, either internally or as an extension of their capabilities. We aim to assist hard-pressed staff in Competitive Intelligence units and elsewhere to produce not just more, but higher quality assessments of strategic opportunities, competitive threats and the competition's tactics.

Appin specializes in procurement of information that helps faster solving of cases. Emails, networks, computers, websites, smart phones such as IPhone, Blackberry and Android platform are digital repositories of information that can serve valuable input for solving investigation and surveillance cases.

Recent investigations represented by Appin:

• representing a high net worth individual in the largest fraud investigation India has ever known up to date, concerning alleged corruption and money laundering in respect of large scale real estate transactions;
  
• representing a former CFO in a multi jurisdictional high profile case in USA
  
• representing the interests of a listed company in a large criminal investigation regarding fraudulent activities in the building industry in Singapore
  
• representing several multinational companies in cases relating to environmental law issues and involving the pharmaceutical industry.