ABSTRACT
Fraud examiners from law firm DLA Piper in Oslo conducted the private policing of suspected economic crime at store chain XXL Sports in Norway. Sometimes, fraud and corruption are considered temporary measures to recover from a crisis, where the measures will be terminated when the crisis is over. The fraud examination by DLA Piper draws the following conclusion: A practice of establishing incorrect pre-prices in XXL has been revealed. It would thus be wrong to conclude that DLA Piper have contributed to clarification at level 3 in the maturity model. The treatment of employees was bad by Norwegian standards, as there was almost a military practice forcing employees to participate in price manipulation. The purpose of this wrongdoing carried out by employees at the sports department stores was to avoid detection by public agencies that they were violating Norwegian marketing regulations.
