Legal Disclaimer

1. General

Information on this website is provided for general informational purposes and does not constitute legal, financial, cybersecurity, or investment advice. Investigative services are subject to the facts of each matter, applicable law, available evidence, and the agreed scope of work. No specific result is guaranteed.

This disclaimer applies to all pages of this website and to any document, presentation, proposal or preliminary opinion issued before a signed engagement agreement is in place. It should be read together with our Terms of Use and Privacy & Data Protection Notice.

2. Nature of our practice — not a regulated profession we do not hold

Blackstone Intelligence Group is an investigative and intelligence practice. We are not a law firm and do not practise law; we are not accountants, auditors, tax advisers, financial advisers, insurance intermediaries, insolvency practitioners, credit reporting bodies, banks, money service businesses, or law-enforcement or regulatory officials. We do not provide legal representation, legal opinions, financial product advice, or fund custody, and we do not exercise any public power of search, seizure, compulsion or arrest.

Always obtain independent advice from qualified professionals admitted or licensed in the relevant jurisdiction before acting on any investigative finding.

3. No advice and no reliance

Website content is general information, may be simplified, may not reflect the current state of the law or technology, and is not tailored to your circumstances. No duty of care is assumed to any person acting on website content without an engagement. Content may not be relied upon by third parties, lenders, insurers or courts unless we expressly agree in writing.

4. Cryptocurrency and digital assets

Transaction tracing may identify blockchain activity and potential investigative leads. It does not guarantee identification of an individual, asset freezing, legal recovery, or financial recovery.

Tracing is not recovery. Blockchain analysis produces probabilistic attributions derived from heuristics, clustering, publicly available data and third-party datasets that may be incomplete, delayed or incorrect. Mixers, privacy protocols, cross-chain bridges, non-cooperative platforms, off-ledger transfers and jurisdictional barriers may make attribution or follow-through impossible.

Recovery, where possible at all, ordinarily requires legal process, cooperation from exchanges, custodians or payment providers, and decisions by courts, regulators or authorities entirely outside our control. Nothing we produce should be treated as a promise of restitution, an asset freeze, a chargeback or a return of funds.

Advance-fee and recovery-fraud warning. We never ask for wallet credentials, private keys or seed phrases, never request "release", "unlock", "tax", "gas" or "insurance" payments to liberate funds, and never guarantee recovery for a fee. Treat any such approach — including one purporting to come from us — as fraudulent and report it.

5. No guaranteed outcomes and no performance claims

We make no representation or warranty that an investigation will identify a responsible party, locate or preserve assets, produce admissible evidence, support a claim or defence, result in restitution, or lead to regulatory or criminal action. Fees are payable for professional effort and methodology, not for a particular result, unless expressly agreed otherwise in writing. Past matters are not indicative of future outcomes.

6. No client identities, testimonials or statistics

This website deliberately contains no client testimonials, client names or logos, case references, performance metrics, recovery figures or success rates. Any scenario described is hypothetical, composed for illustration, and is not an account of a real client matter. Any personnel biography or credential shown is a clearly marked placeholder until verified information is published.

7. Lawful methods only

We conduct work using lawful, proportionate and documented methods. We do not and will not engage in computer hacking or unauthorised access, credential misuse, interception of communications, unlawful surveillance or tracking, pretexting or impersonation to obtain data, bribery of officials or insiders, handling of stolen or unlawfully obtained data, or interference with law-enforcement, regulatory or judicial processes. Instructions requiring such activity are declined and, where required by law, reported.

8. Evidential limitations

Admissibility, weight and disclosure obligations differ by jurisdiction and forum. While we apply recognised forensic principles — documented chain of custody, verifiable hashing, reproducible methodology and clearly stated assumptions — we cannot warrant that any output will be admitted, accepted or preferred by a court, tribunal, regulator or insurer. Expert evidence is given only where separately instructed and permitted.

9. Reliance on client-supplied and third-party information

Findings depend on the accuracy, completeness and lawfulness of the material provided to us and on third-party sources including registers, open-source data, commercial datasets and blockchain records. We do not independently verify every document supplied by a client, we record assumptions and limitations in our reports, and conclusions may change if further information emerges.

10. Jurisdiction, licensing and regulation

Investigative activity is regulated differently across jurisdictions and in some places requires a licence. We provide services only where we may lawfully do so and, where required, through appropriately licensed personnel or partners. Licensing details, where applicable: [LICENSING DETAILS PER JURISDICTION]. Nothing on this site is an offer of services in a jurisdiction where such an offer would be unlawful.

11. Conflicts, screening and acceptance

All prospective instructions are subject to conflict checks, know-your-client and anti-money-laundering screening, sanctions checks and an internal ethics assessment. We may decline or terminate an instruction, without giving reasons, where a conflict, legal risk or ethical concern arises.

12. Confidentiality boundaries and mandatory disclosure

We maintain strict confidentiality, subject to legal obligations that may require disclosure — including suspicious activity or money-laundering reporting, sanctions reporting, court orders and mandatory reporting of certain harms. In some jurisdictions we may be prohibited from telling you that a report has been made.

13. Third-party tools, links and data

References to third-party platforms, analytics providers, protocols or publications are for identification only and imply no affiliation, endorsement or accuracy warranty. We are not responsible for third-party content, availability, security or data quality.

14. Forward-looking and threat-landscape statements

Commentary on fraud typologies, threat actors or technology trends reflects our view at the time of writing, is inherently uncertain, and should not be relied upon as a prediction or as a substitute for a risk assessment specific to your circumstances.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for loss arising from reliance on this website or on pre-engagement material. Liability in respect of engaged work is governed exclusively by the applicable engagement agreement, including its liability cap and exclusions. Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, nor does it affect non-excludable consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law or comparable legislation.

16. Intellectual property

Methodologies, templates, report formats and analytical materials remain our intellectual property. Deliverables are licensed for the purpose stated in the engagement agreement and may not be published, distributed or relied upon by others without written consent.

17. Emergencies

If you believe you are experiencing an active cyberattack, contact the appropriate emergency services, your financial institution, relevant service providers, and qualified legal or cybersecurity professionals immediately.

We are not an emergency service and cannot guarantee immediate availability. Report crime to your local police or national cybercrime reporting service, notify your bank or exchange without delay, and preserve evidence rather than attempting to interact with a suspected offender.

18. Contact

Questions about this disclaimer: [EMAIL ADDRESS], [PHONE NUMBER], or Dronning Eufemias gate 8, Bjørvika, 0191 Oslo.