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12 Aug 22
The government has launched the Public Sector Fraud Authority, with an aim of recovering more than £180m of fraudulent payments in its first year.
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28 Apr 22
The Treasury will spend £25m on a 'fraud squad' aimed at recovering funds wrongly given out in Covid-19 support schemes, with hopes the team will be up and running by the summer.
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23 Mar 22
North Lincolnshire Council was duped into paying out nearly £50,000 to an incorrect bank account as part of sophisticated email scam, it has emerged.
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16 Mar 22
The level of fraud in the government’s Covid-19 loan schemes is around £1.5bn less than previously forecast, according to senior officials at the British Business Bank.
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10 Mar 22
The former Cabinet Office and Treasury minister who resigned in January over the government’s measures to tackle fraud in Covid-19 loan schemes yesterday told MPs that officials and...