investigation; inquiry(an investigation • An inquiry is being held into her disappearance); inquiry into(An IAS officer was allegedly threatened of dire consequences and verbally abused by a secretary of a private trust and his son, during an inquiry into a theft case in the district on Wednesday, police said. • Yesterday, a police spokesman said: "Police Scotland are conducting an inquiry into a theft from Tayside division headquarters in Dundee.); inquisition; examen(ереси); fact-finding(обстоятельств); probing; inquiries; perquisition; investigating(ssn); probe(an FBI probe into corruptioncambridge.org • The sales were detected as part of the Investigative Committee's probe into five criminal cases opened late last month in connection with allegedly illegal sales of military property – including sanatoriums, guest houses and land worth $95.5 million – by the Oboronservis firm, which was chaired by Serdyukov until last year. TMTAlexander Demidov); sleuthing(частное, см. do private sleuthing • A bit of sleuthing from our investigative reporter uncovered some interesting information on Mr Parkinson.Taras)
fact-finding mission(The mission, led by Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini, who headed the European Union's fact-finding mission for the causes of the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, will publish a preliminary report on Monday, OSCE spokesman Jens-Hagen Eschenbдcher said by telephone from Warsaw. TMT Alexander Demidov)
investigation(At first it was considered an accident, but an investigation by sheriff's detectives convinced authorities that the boy did it on purpose. — Помощники шерифа вначале считали, что выстрелы были случайными. (Расследование, проведённое следователями шерифа, дало властям убедительные доказательства, что мальчик сделал это намеренно.))