Private Sector

To combat company director targeted fraud, from today, company directors can delete personal address listings from the UK’s official company register.

http://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2018/02/22/personal-address-listings-dropped-companies-house-combat-fraud/

In this world of ongoing data breaches, sophisticated phishing attacks, and personal data changing hands on the dark web, all financial institutions and ecommerce companies must come to terms with their risk of ATO

https://www.thepaypers.com/expert-opinion/account-takeover-protecting-your-business-from-a-growing-threat/771941

The woman was working as an accountant when she embezzled the money from two client companies

http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2018/kelly-ford-jailed-21-02-18.php

UK organisations are facing increasingly complex and costly incidents of fraud partly due to increasing cyber fraud, yet few are making use of the anti-fraud technologies available, a survey has revealed

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/252435465/UK-organisations-failing-to-take-action-against-fraud

More companies are relying on the nontraditional workers of the gig economy. But are they ready to manage the potential obstacles?

https://betterworkingworld.ey.com/workforce/what-are-the-hidden-risks-of-contingent-workforces

A man who took almost £60,000 away from the small business he worked for has been jailed for 20 months.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2018/02/16/almost-family-trusted-wednesbury-worker-jailed-for-57000-garage-fraud/

The salesman got victims – including customers of Mercedes in Wolverhampton – to invest in bogus schemes to deal in traded-in cars.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2018/02/14/car-showroom-conman-in-100k-fraud-to-pay-back-10/

Four months after it became a criminal offence for a business to have an employee or other 'associated person' who facilitates tax evasion, many businesses have still not got the policies and procedures in place that could protect them

https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2018/february/many-businesses-are-still-at-risk-from-tax-corporate-criminal-offence/

The Insolvency Service has disqualified a director at Agri Firma Capital for a maximum of 15 years for fraudulent conduct of “the nastiest kind”

https://economia.icaew.com/en/news/february-2018/director-disqualified-for-nastiest-fraud

There are several offences available under this legislation

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=cc1c2acb-314c-4116-bc6a-d708adc9c21e