Source: BBC News, The Takeaway, 29th May 2013 Liberty Reserve – a Costa Rican-based digital currency service – has been shut down after the reported arrest of its founder. Authorities in the Central American country said Arthur Budovsky had been taken into custody in Spain on suspicion of money laundering. The size of the operation…
Source: Action Fraud, 15th May 2013 Three fraudsters who scammed over 100 eBay customers out of money have been ordered to pay back almost £72,000. The three men admitted the large scale fraud in Derby Crown Court in December last year and were jailed for three-and-a-half years. The gang set up a fake company and used…
Source: BBC News, 24th May 2013 Amanda Webber, 43, claimed five of her children had disabilities and medical conditions affecting their mobility…. The prosecution said the children led active lives, taking part in PE classes and activities including music, drama and dance, without any difficulties. As well as auditioning for ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent show,…
Some benefit fraud cases take months and even years to investigate, can be complex and very involved. They take a lot of hard work, hours spent trying to establish and demonstrate links between people, finances, businesses and properties, for example. Then there are those which just fall at your feet, such is the case of…
The following has been reproduced with kind permission from Patrick Combs A True Story by Patrick Combs [First appeared in the London Financial Times, August 2012 as a cover story of The Arts Section] It was a cheque, made out in my name, for $95,093.35 and it came in a junk-mail letter from a get-rich-quick…
Source: West Yorkshire Police & ITN, March 2013 A caped crusader recently delivered a wanted man to a police station in Bradford. “Batman came into the help-desk, stated to the staff ‘I’ve caught this one for you’ and then promptly vanished into the night to fight crime and the fear of crime in Bradford.” said a…
I have been a Counter Fraud Specialist for over twenty years, specialising in protecting the public purse and since jumping into self-employment ten years ago I have worked for many clients in all four corners of the UK, mainly in the areas of Benefit, Tenancy and Corporate Fraud and usually my clients are Local Councils. …
Source: Channel 4 News, 24th July 2012 The former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank is charged in Ireland over a failed insider trading scam. The court heard the 64-year-old replied “no comment” when charged with 16 offences by gardai attached to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in a city centre garda station. Each…
Source: UKPA, 9th July 2012 A bank official from Kent admitted defrauding his bosses of £2 million. Michael Corrigan, 48, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to four offences of fraud committed between January and September 2010. Corrigan, of Hayne Road, Beckenham, was remanded on bail to be sentenced on September 7. The charges state that he…
