Fraud Intelligence

Audit giant KPMG UK has joined a UK government drive to recruit prison-leavers, citing its successful ongoing pilot scheme, launched in 2022.

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.

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).

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.