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28 Jun 22
Digital technologies have opened a new front in the war against money laundering.
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26 May 22
Is a hardening of governments’ approaches to money laundering anything more than cosmetic?
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20 May 22
The Department for Work and Pensions is set to spend £600m and give officers new legal powers in a move ministers say will help prevent £4bn of fraud in the benefit system over the next five years.
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18 May 22
MPs have criticised the government for allowing “billions and billions” of pounds to be lost to fraud and error in Covid-19 support schemes, and particularly for lacking information on loans and...
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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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27 Apr 22
The government’s apparent lack of long-term plan to recover overdue debt issued via its £47bn Covid-19 business loan scheme means fraudsters could “walk away with billions of taxpayers’ money”,...
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22 Apr 22
The resignation of former Treasury minister Lord Agnew highlights the need for public bodies to put in place robust anti-corruption measures, says Richard Lloyd-Bithell.
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19 Apr 22
Local authorities in England have urged residents to remain vigilant over cold calling scams linked to the £150 energy rebates that councils are overseeing this year.
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5 Apr 22
Essex County Council is set to invest £1m to help improve its cyber security, after experts warned of heightened risks of Russian interference in public bodies.
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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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18 Mar 22
Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index shows a worrying trend among advanced economies. What are the lessons for public sector finance professionals?
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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...
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25 Feb 22
A CIPFA apprentice has won the best newcomer category at an annual public sector counter fraud awards ceremony.
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16 Feb 22
Leeds City Council has paid out more than £1m in Covid-19 business grant support to fraudsters, it has emerged.
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14 Feb 22
Gloucester City Council has created a £380,000 reserve in 2022-23 to fund IT recovery works following a recent cyber attack.
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10 Feb 22
A group of MPs has criticised what it called HMRC’s lack of ambition to recover billions of pounds lost to fraud amid Covid-19.
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8 Feb 22
Lord Agnew’s dramatic resignation as a minister on the floor of the House of Lords has brought into sharp focus some of the actions the government needs to take on counter fraud.
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8 Feb 22
A London borough is co-operating with a police probe into an allegation of fraud linked to a housing development project.
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24 Jan 22
Lord Agnew of Oulton has resigned as a minister, citing “arrogance, indolence and ignorance” across government in relation to counter fraud.
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21 Jan 22
The UK government seems to have decided it is easier to recoup money paid out in error to the poorest in society than from Covid-19 support scheme fraudsters, says George Turner.
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17 Jan 22
The Treasury has written off the possibility of recovering most of the money lost to fraud and error during the pandemic, according to official documents.
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14 Jan 22
The agency administering housing benefit on behalf of the Northern Irish government has had its 2020-21 accounts qualified over “material levels” of fraud and error, according to the...
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4 Jan 22
A government anti-fraud team has recovered more than £1bn from tax offenders and criminals in the five years since it was set up, according to HM Revenue and Customs.
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21 Dec 21
A councillor responsible for overseeing Covid-19 relief for small businesses fraudulently applied for a £10,000 hardship grant for an inoperative pizza restaurant he owned, a court has found.