The National Fraud Initiative has saved the government more than £300m across the UK over the past two financial years – a record since the exercise began.
A series of aid programmes will be set up to stem the flow of money obtained unlawfully or immorally in developing countries, the UK government has announced.
CIPFA head Rob Whiteman provides the first of our regular columns on fraud, looking at how countering this crime requires collaboration and should be a strategic priority.
Public sector bodies should protect themselves against the potential of highly costly fraud attacks, says ‘white collar’ crime solicitor Rahman Ravelli.
Home secretary Amber Rudd has launched a £40m serious violence strategy following the recent spate of knife and gun crime that has affected London particularly.
Liverpool Council has suspended its chief executive, who is currently on bail in connection with a fraud probe, to allow it to carry out its own independent investigation into him.
Campaign group Transparency International has urged the UK authorities to seize any property in the country owned by Pakistan’s disgraced ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
New laws currently under consideration in the UK could eliminate the country's role in global corruption as a hotbed of ill-gotten cash and assets, experts have told PF International.
The government has failed “in spectacular fashion” to implement changes to the way it confiscates the proceeds of crime, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
