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KPMG offers ex-criminals jobs, but not in roles linked to their offences
Audit giant KPMG UK has joined a UK government drive to recruit prison-leavers, citing its successful ongoing pilot scheme, launched in 2022.
Online Published Date:
05 May 2024
Appeared in issue:
June/July 2024 - 26 March 2024
Ban second jobs by MEPs, says TI
Transparency International EU is calling for a ban on members of the European Parliament (MEPs) undertaking side jobs in future, following this June's elections, citing conflict of interest concerns.
Online Published Date:
09 May 2024
Appeared in issue:
June/July 2024 - 26 March 2024
US tax authority unveils 2024 'dirty dozen' scams
Bogus tax avoidance strategies, phishing and smishing scams as well as fake art donations and charities, all feature on the 2024 Dirty Dozen tax swindles listing from the US Inland Revenue Service (IRS).
Online Published Date:
16 May 2024
Appeared in issue:
June/July 2024 - 26 March 2024
Reload - the crypto-crime scene
Cryptocurrency fraud may have declined of late, after rampant growth during Covid, but with the sector a byword for innovation, there is no cause for complacency, as Keith Nuthalldiscovers.
Online Published Date:
16 May 2024
Appeared in issue:
June/July 2024 - 26 March 2024
What can fraud prevention learn from behavioural science?
A holistic counter-fraud approach can usefully draw on insights from economics, psychology, sociology and neurology to promote a culture where wrongdoing is less prevalent. Priya Giuliani and Katherine Odendaal of Guidehouse outline how tactics such as the social norm technique, ethical nudges and strategic use of friction can benefit workplace behaviours.
Online Published Date:
20 May 2024
Appeared in issue:
June/July 2024 - 26 March 2024
Practical uses of AI in asset tracing
Search and seizure as well as imaging processes are crucial legal tools for an investigation, with much at stake on their effective delivery. Joanna Curtis of Brown Rudnick details specific ways in which artificial intelligence could be employed to assist this process.
Online Published Date:
21 May 2024
Appeared in issue:
June/July 2024 - 26 March 2024
Benefit claims
The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has let it be known that it beat its target for making savings from counter-fraud activities in 2023-24. Should we be impressed? asks Niall Hearty of Rahman Ravelli.
Online Published Date:
21 May 2024
Appeared in issue:
August/September 2024 - 01 August 2024
Body of evidence - polygraph testing
In use for over 100 years, disparaged by many fraud investigators, lie detectors continue to undergo innovation. So, really, do they, can they work - how well, at all? Paul Cochranewants to know.
Online Published Date:
21 May 2024
Appeared in issue:
August/September 2024 - 01 August 2024
EU round-up - Ukraine joins European anti-fraud regime
The government of Ukraine, struggling against a Russian offensive near its second city Kharkiv, has joined the European Union's (EU) Union Anti-Fraud Programme (UAFP), as it seeks to shore up EU support through anti-graft and financial crime efforts.
Online Published Date:
24 May 2024
Appeared in issue:
August/September 2024 - 01 August 2024
Ex top aide to Madagascan president jailed in UK for bribery
The former chief of staff to Madagascan President, Andry Rajoelina, has been jailed in an English court after a successful prosecution of a foreign official soliciting bribes in Britain, breaching section 2 of the Bribery Act 2010.
Online Published Date:
24 May 2024
Appeared in issue:
August/September 2024 - 01 August 2024
Illusive truth - AI for deception detection
If software can work through sufficient examples of human behaviour it should be able to determine more accurately than a trained interviewer whether a subject is honest: that's the theory, Paul Cochranelooks at whether it stacks up.
Online Published Date:
26 May 2024
Appeared in issue:
August/September 2024 - 01 August 2024