Who we are
About the company
Bureau RM is a risk management and security company. Not a guard company and not a private detective agency in the everyday sense: our instruments are analysis, fact-checking and well-built processes.
From the Bureau of Independent Investigations to Bureau RM
The company started more than a decade ago as the outsourcing company “Bureau of Independent Investigations” — a name that described exactly what it did at the time.
In time the work grew beyond investigations: corporate and economic security, personnel risk, deal support, legal coordination. The old name would have narrowed every conversation to a single service.
Since 2026 the range has been extended with risk management, financial audit, cyber security and information security, and the company is called Bureau RM. “RM” stands both for risk management as the core competence and for the owner's initials as a personal guarantee of quality.
The rebranding narrative follows the owner's open letter published on the company's current website.
Method
Applicability first
Before discussing fees we answer one question: can this be solved by lawful means?
Facts apart from hypotheses
A report separates what is documented, what is a reasoned hypothesis and what cannot be verified.
Minimum data
We ask only for what the work genuinely requires and keep nothing beyond it.
A decision, not a folder
A report ends not with a list of findings but with the decisions it supports — and those it does not.
Principles
Lawfulness
We work within the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan and do not take on tasks that require leaving it.
Confidentiality within reason
Client information is not disclosed. We do not, however, promise “absolute anonymity”: the law sets out cases where information must be disclosed.
Fact-checking
A statement without a source stays a hypothesis and is labelled as one.
Independent judgement
The conclusion does not depend on the result the client hopes for.
What we do not do
The list is closed and not open to negotiation. A refusal comes immediately, at the applicability stage.
- Unlawful collection of personal data, access to correspondence, or to banking, medical and other legally protected information.
- Surveillance, harassment, pressure on people, and any task that puts their safety at risk.
- Concealment of assets, circumvention of regulation, or help in evading obligations.
- “Guaranteed results”: recovery of funds, dismissal or punishment of a named person, a predetermined investigative conclusion.
- Work outside a properly documented engagement and agreed boundaries.
Partners
Part of our work is done together with specialised organisations and professionals — in Kazakhstan and abroad.
Local partners
- Public association “Security Experts Qalqan”
- Public association “Eurasian Association of Polygraph Examiners”
- AlfaKomKonsalt LLP
- Informsecurity LLP
- Public association “Business Community of Law Enforcement Veterans”
- Qualified attorneys and lawyers experienced in criminal and civil cases
International partners
- Private enforcement agents
- USA Private Detective
- Center for Business Economic Security
- Stop-Loss
- JOI Consulting Group
- Tainy Sovetnik
- Agency Detective
- IPS Group — Intellectual Programs of Safety
- RIMANO BIURAS
- LOSSCARGO — cargo tracing agency
- STERN Advisory Group
- SBS Society — Baltic Security
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