"COLD CASE DETECTIVES" OR "COMMERCIAL & BANK INVESTIGATORS

To date, there has been little focus on the firm of private detectives the McCanns hired in the UK and precisely when. Their firm name on their webpage describe them as Hogan International - Commerical and Bank Investigators. See also details of services they offer below. Why then, in the Daily Mail article are they described as "cold case investigators"? Just like the Retardos, they actually specialise in monetary fraud. It is clear they are the ones responsible for the desperate search for non-prosecution "witnesses" in the UK seeking to exculpate the McCanns by producing a series of so called "creepy characters" who at some stage had been in the vicinity of the McCann apartment. This includes a charity collector and apparently Michaela Walzchuch when canvassing for Jehovah's witnesses. Then we had the highly credible Granny Cooper and the big splash in the News of the World with her startling "evidence".

This firm are obviously not fearful of seeking to protect their reputation, having sued the Daily Express and apparently received an out of court settlement. This does not stop us from reasonably asking questions about them and querying who is actually funding them. Why has the Find Maddie Fund failed to mention this? When the McCanns themselves perpetuated a fraud by asking for money from the public to find Madeleine, knowing she was already dead, how odd they instruct two firms of fraud investigators!

Viv x



The below is only a brief overview of the services provided by HOGAN International. Please contact us (in confidence) to discuss specifics.SURVEILLANCEThe surveillance department is made up almost entirely of former CID and Special Forces officers, with backgrounds which enable them to carry out a wide range of covert operations. The department has investigated frauds and internal thefts exceeding £50m. One case involved the infiltration of an organised gang responsible for a company's stock losses of £20,000 a week! The matter was resolved and, as is the case wherever Hogan International is involved the client was able to minimise publicity - sometimes more damaging than the crimes themselves.TRACINGThe tracing department has on-line computer links to a variety of databases in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region. This gives direct access to information on more than 500 million individuals and companies. Supplemented by field investigators, this department offers a service which embraces everything from elusive debtors to natural parents and beneficiaries of wills.PERSONNEL VETTINGHogan International currently acts for a number of clients investigating the backgrounds and C.Vs of prospective and existing employees up to board level. Totally contrived or manipulated histories have been uncovered in numerous cases enabling the client to make a decision based upon the facts discovered.LEGAL SERVICESThis department provides a full range of services to the legal profession, often working in conjunction with other departments. Predominantly used in the service of papers such as writs, statutory demands and the tracing and interviewing of witnesses, other areas of activity include local authority searches, criminal and civil defence case investigations and legal photography.ASSET INVESTIGATIONSParticularly successful has been the provision of pre-sue reports. Their preparation has often acted as a final prompt to pay on the part of the defaulter, or uncovered circumstances which, while regrettable, show an action would not be cost effective - saving the further time and cost of pointless litigation. A comprehensive asset location investigation service is also available.TRAININGHogan International believes in the thorough training and preparation of its own staff - and offers the same training opportunities to client companies. Some of the basic course cover "The tracing of elusive debtors", "Prevention and detection of consumer and corporate fraud" and "Personnel vetting"










The McCanns bring in cold-case detectives to investigate Madeleine's disappearanceBy DAN NEWLING and VANESSA ALLEN - More by this author » Last updated at 00:48am on 3rd January 2008
Comments (21) Kate and Gerry McCann have hired a former Met Police officer to carry out a "cold case" review into Madeleine's disappearance.
Noel Hogan, a former CID detective, has spent hundreds of hours interviewing British witnesses in the case.
He has also gone through each witness's existing statements line by line. Among those he has interviewed include the socalled "Tapas seven" who were on holiday with the McCanns in Praia da Luz last May.
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Kate and Gerry McCann have brought in a British cold-case detective to help find their daughter Madeleine
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He is also thought to have taken Kate and Gerry McCann through their own statements in minute detail.
Mr Hogan spent eight years in the Met where he reached the rank of detective superintendent.
Since 1986 he has run his own detective agency in Surrey, Hogan International, which claims to have extensive experience dealing with missing-person cases.
Mr Hogan had been investigating one of the 7/7 suicide bombers before the terror attacks in 2005 after the man's bank became suspicious of his spending patterns.
When contacted by the Daily Mail, Mr Hogan confirmed that he had spoken to many of the holidaymakers now back in Britain.
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Madeleine McCann has been missing since May, last year
He said: "I have been reinterviewing a number of the witnesses that were out in Portugal at the time."
He added that his investigation would tie in with the enquiry being conducted by the Spanish detective agency Metodo 3 in Barcelona.
Since four-year- old Madeleine's disappearance, well-wishers have contributed over £1million to the fund to help find her.
The McCanns have spent much of this money on Metodo 3, which is being paid £50,000 a month to lead the search for their daughter.
However, the couple are understood to have become increasingly disillusioned with the firm, after its head detective Francisco Marco made a series of wild public statements.
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Police make the initial search of the McCann's holiday apartment
Mr Marco claimed to know for a fact that the missing toddler was being kept in North Africa and would be home by Christmas.
But yesterday a source close to the family said that Kate and Gerry were keeping faith with Metodo 3 in spite of their concerns.
But the source confirmed that they have also authorised the employment of Mr Hogan to coordinate the UK end of the investigation.
The McCanns' official spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, declined to comment.
Metodo 3 are currently trying to re-interview an Irish family who said they saw a man carrying away a child on the night Madeleine disappeared.
Martin Smith and his family-from Drogheda in Co. Louth, told police about the sighting - which is strikingly similar to one by a friend of the McCanns, Jane Tanner.
They described a barefoot child and a man wearing beige trousers walking towards the beach in Praia da Luz, about 400yards from the McCanns' holiday apartment.
However, they said that the man was definitely not official suspect Robert Murat, whom they had met before and would have recognised.
Mr Smith even flew back to Portugal to give evidence but said he had not been contacted by police since making a statement in May.