Fraud Intelligence

By Sara Lewis

The UK faces a possible €2bn (UK£2.4bn) penalty for not acting to prevent customs fraud by Chinese clothing importers.On 8 March, the European Commission notified London that the UK would have to pay the customs duties that were lost when..

By Sara Lewis

The budget for the UK Serious Fraud Office will rise from a planned UK£34.3m for 2018/19 to UK£52.7m, following calls by Jeremy Wright, the attorney general, to reduce the agency’s reliance on “blockbuster” funding...

By Sara Lewis

By Sara Lewis, in Brussels

By Sara Lewis

By Sara Lewis

By Sara Lewis

By Sara Lewis

By Sara Lewis

Lisa Osofsky, a former US federal prosecutor, who has worked at the FBI and Goldman Sachs, will take up the post of director of the UK Serious Fraud Office on 3 September 2018.Ms Osofsky will replace Mark Thompson, who has been interim director..

By Keith Nuthall

Nigel Iyer (+ 47 906 54 410 or + 44 7253 570004; nigel.iyer@hibis.com) has over 20 years’ experience investigating and detecting fraud and corruption. A computer scientist and chartered accountant, Nigel soon found his true passion lay in rooting out corruption and fraud. Nigel is also a dramatist, having written a number of films and plays based on his experiences, many of which are used in teaching worldwide. He has written several books and papers, and teaches widely how to defend organisations against the “commercial dark arts”. He is also a fellow of the University of Leicester School of Business.This article, edited by Martin Stevens ACA, was first published in the December 2017 edition of SIRK, the bi-annual magazine of the Institute of Internal Auditors in Norway (http://iia.no/sirk/).