Ninety days before the company filed, $4.2 million left its accounts. Not in one wire. In thirty-one transfers, routed through four LLCs formed that same quarter, two of them sharing a registered agent with the CEO’s brother-in-law. By the time the trustee’s counsel pulled the statements, the cash was gone, and the trail was a spreadsheet with more than nine thousand rows.
That spreadsheet is the case. In a fraudulent transfer or asset-recovery matter, the facts rarely sit in a document. They sit in the ledger. The badges of fraud that courts look for, transfers to insiders, concealment, timing near insolvency, a debtor who kept using the assets after selling them, none of them announce themselves in a memo. They only appear when you can see how the accounts connect and to the people behind them.
The document review misses the transfer.
Document review platforms are built to read what people wrote. They surface the email where someone says the wrong thing, the contract with the buried clause, the memo that dates the knowledge. That work matters, and it is not going away.
But the transfer itself is not a sentence someone typed. It is a movement of money between accounts, and then between accounts again, and again, until the origin and the destination look unrelated on paper. Relativity reads documents. SentVi maps relationships from data. In an asset-tracing case, the relationships are the whole ballgame.
Turning the ledger into a picture
SentVi takes the same records the other side is counting on you never to reconcile, bank statements, wire logs, entity formation filings, and treats every transaction as a link between two parties. The debtor is a node. Each LLC is a node. Each transfer is a line connecting them, weighted by amount and stamped with a date.
Nine thousand rows stop being rows. They become a shape. The debtor sits at the center. Funds fan out through the intermediary entities, then quietly converge on a single insider. Layering that was designed to look like unrelated arm’s-length dealing shows up as exactly what it is: a route.
Three things that were invisible in the spreadsheet become obvious on the map:
The insider relationship. The shared registered agent, the common address, the brother-in-law’s name on two of the four entities —all of it draws the debtor and the beneficiary into the same tight cluster; the distance the transfers were meant to create collapses.
The concealment. Layering is only effective when no one can hold the whole chain in their head at once. On a relationship map, the chain is one continuous path from the first account to the last, and the intermediaries stop hiding it and start proving it.
The retained control. When money leaves and then benefits the same person who sent it, the flow loops back . Loops are easy to see and hard to explain away, which is precisely the point you want to make about a transfer that was supposed to be a genuine sale.
From weeks of analyst time to a single exhibit
The old way to build this is a litigation-support analyst and a month of nights, reconciling statements by hand, keying transfers into a working file, hoping the summary chart survives cross-examination. It is slow, it is expensive, and the finished product is only as clear as the analyst’s patience held out.
The map is built once. The analyst imports the data, SentVi draws the network, and the same view that helped the team understand the fraud becomes the demonstrative that helps the judge and jury understand it. You are no longer asking a fact finder to follow thirty-one wire references across a table. You are showing them a line that starts at the debtor and ends at the insider, and letting the picture do the argument.
That is the difference between telling a jury the money was moved and showing them where it went.
See it on a real network.
Our walk-through on untangling a connected network, “How Link Analysis Software Busts Crime Rings,” shows the same method in motion: dozens of actors and transactions that look like noise until the links are drawn, and then resolve into a structure with a clear center. A fraudulent transfer is that structure with dollar amounts on the lines.
If you have a matter where the assets moved, and the paper trail is a stack of statements nobody wants to reconcile by hand, that is the case SentVi was built for. Book a demo and bring a redacted sample of the data. We will map it with you, and you can see, on your own facts, exactly where the money went.
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