Since May 2002, the Tax Evasion Bureau's investigative departments have been using the software to support their computer forensics initiatives by scouring and pinpointing evidence of tax fraud contained in large volumes of impounded data. More than 70 intelligence and law enforcement organizations in the United States and other countries currently use Convera's products for crime investigation and intelligence gathering and analysis.
Conducting knowledge-based searches through mushrooming volumes of data is a challenge faced by all authorities involved in criminal investigation. Tax employees at the fiscal authority in Chemnitz South are using RetrievalWare to support investigations of cases such as trade, industry, and capital investment tax fraud. Impounded data, such as documents hidden or stored on computer hard drives, are being searched to locate proof of criminal conduct or clues that will help further their investigations. The "wonder weapon", as the Tax Evasion Bureau describes Convera's RetrievalWare, has already proven its worth, quickly tracking down documents that were key to a number of critical cases and saving the authority a vast amount of time in its investigations.