Fraud Intelligence

In English law, to lie or to be guilty of a dishonest act does not necessarily involve the person responsible in criminality. Gavin McFarlane of Titmuss Sainer Dechert and London Guildhall University explains.

Steve White of Network International examines five key areas of risk – procurement, treasury, IT security, staff practices and physical security – which a fraud risk management programme must address in order to add value.

Fraud investigations in the UK are set to up move up a gear as more companies seek to pursue fraudsters through the civil courts as well as to take advantage of the new Partners Against Crime initiative. Andrew Jackson, Managing Director of Kroll Associates and the firm’s European Counsel, discusses the key to success.

Dana Giacchetto, a money manager who numbered such luminaries as Leonardo DiCaprio, star of the film “Titanic”, and Courtney Cox Arquette of the hugely popular American soap “Friends”, among his clients and confidants, has..

Lawrence Champion, a middle manager in the capital gains clearance section of the UK Inland Revenue, has been sentenced to six months in prison after he pleaded guilty to 13 counts of insider trading contrary to section 52(1) of the Criminal..

Sixty per cent of UK organisations have suffered an information security breach in the last two years according to the latest research carried out for the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry. Of the groups that regard their business..

THE EU Council of Ministers has voted to allow the Netherlands to tighten a loophole in the sale of gold that had allowed investors to evade and avoid VAT payments. European law allows the purchase of investment gold to be exempt from VAT, but there..

Kroll O’Gara, the leading corporate security group, is to split into three separate companies after board level disagreements and a failure to merge Kroll’s investigations operations effectively with the physical protection products,..

EUROPEAN Union customs officers have the right under EU law to confiscate and permit the destruction of counterfeit goods, even if they have been made, and are to be sold, outside the European Union, the European Court of Justice has ruled. Its..

The UK Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners recently launched the three-volume UK version of the US ACFE Fraud Manual. UK Chairman and Managing Director Colin Grimes described the UK edition as a complete revision, rewritten by..

While all fraud investigators are aware that the Data Protection Act 1998 came into force on 1 March this year, what is less well known or understood is the impact that it will have on their role. In many instances it may be too early to tell how the specific provisions of the Act will be interpreted by the Data Protection Commissioner or the courts. However, it is important for those operating in this field to have identified and analysed those aspects of the new legislation (of which there are many) that affect their work and, perhaps even more importantly, to have adopted a strategy for dealing with them. In this article Ian Trumper, a director in the Investigations practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, gives a brief background to and summary of the main data protection principles and then proceeds to concentrate on the impact of the Data Protection Act 1998, both on the business community generally and then on the fraud investigator specifically.