If the tax man's going to accuse us of fraud, we don't want to hear his silly euphemisms, insists Vicki Woods.
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Telegraph on 27th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
A police taskforce dedicated to combating organised crime at the London Olympics has arrested nearly 100 people for fraud-related offences
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FT on 25th Jan 2012 (via ft.com)
The White House is to join forces with New York investigators to probe alleged frauds involving home loans and mortgage-backed securities
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FT on 25th Jan 2012 (via ft.com)
Open Europe picks up that former European Commission President Jacques Santer, who in 1999 was forced to resign along with the entire Commission amid allegations of corruption and fraud, has been appointed as Head of the eurozone’s ‘Special Purpose Investment Vehicle’, which aims to raise billions of euros in funding to help deal with the eurozone crisis. Yes, he'll be headi...
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PurpleScorpion on 24th Jan 2012 (via thepurplescorpion.blogspot.com)
A fifth of all council house tenancies may be fraudulent, according to investigators who have conducted the first large-scale examination of the problem.
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Telegraph on 21st Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Chris Grayling says new figures showing the number of migrants on the dole will help cut down fraud and benefit tourism.
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Telegraph on 20th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Private Eye has welcomed a newcomer to its Rotten Boroughs column in its past 26 issues: Cotswold District Council. Here in the idyllic Cotswold constituency, neighbouring David Cameron’s Witney, there has been massive fraud, resulting, so far, in the prosecution and sentencing of former Cotswold Water Park Society CEO Dennis Grant, who embezzled £700,000 of
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 18th Jan 2012 (via libdemvoice.org)
Reported cases of fraud go up from 372 to 413 with more than a third being tax crime while retail offences rise to 12 per cent
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FT on 8th Jan 2012 (via ft.com)
A businessman accused of being the mastermind behind an alleged £100m ‘Ponzi’ scheme was warned he faced a jail sentence after admitting charges of fraud and deception. OK, this was a big one but Ponzis are hardly unusual. I’ve been invited into one or two even in my very limited business life. But here’s the
Ouch, these numbers hurt: A fifth of all council house tenancies may be fraudulent, according to investigators who have conducted the first large-scale examination of the problem……… Fraud investigators matched 27,000 tenants – the entire tenant roll of two councils and four housing associations – against mortgage and credit databases. They found “indications of ...
