A civil solution

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.

Many organisations which discover that they have become victims of corporate crime want to take a low key approach to dealing with the fraudsters. There is rarely an over-riding desire to see a long, drawn-out criminal prosecution. Rather, the factor uppermost in the mind of the corporate victim is how best to sort out the problem quickly and recover the stolen assets.