Private Sector

There is no evidence that Tesco‘s former finance chief bullied staff into falsifying the company‘s accounts, a court has heard.

http://jacksonobserver.com/tesco-fraud-trial-hears-no-evidence-of-bullying-claims/

Cyber-attacks on the NHS, Equifax and the NSA, and the disruption and fear they caused, helped move cyber security from the technology section to front page news.

http://www.smeweb.com/2017/12/19/cyber-security-lessons-smes-can-take-2018/

Invoice finance, where a company secures borrowing against the money it is already owed by its customers, is now the preferred method of business lending

http://www.bobsguide.com/guide/news/2018/Jan/2/how-loyal-customers-end-up-on-invoice-frauds-carousel-of-criminality/

A mother and son from Fermanagh have each received suspended jail terms after admitting a series of fraud and money laundering charges.

http://www.impartialreporter.com/news/15798561.Suspended_jail_sentences_for_mother_and_son/

The research found theft from unmanned checkouts has doubled in the last four years

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/brit-shoppers-self-service-scan-11760401

The founder of a Chinese takeaway chain being investigated for money-laundering was more than £4million overdrawn when the firm entered administration.

http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/founder-chinese-takeaway-chain-hotcha-986236