Private Sector

The proportion of UK firms reporting a cyber-attack has jumped, despite most businesses admitting they are under-prepared for breaches, according to research from Hiscox.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48017943

Following new lines of enquiry police are investigating an incident of fraud, whereby two pieces of art were falsely purchased from a gallery in Cockermouth.

A TRUSTED assistant manager nearly brought the final curtain down on a 106-year-old theatre by stealing more than £273,000 from its coffers.

https://www.metro.news/theatre-boss-played-the-villain-with-273k-fraud/1514106/

Shares in FTSE 250-listed drug company Indivior crashed 70 per cent this morning after it was hit with a US indictment containing 28 felony counts last night.

The jury in the trial of four former senior Barclays executive accused of fraud for their part in a financial crisis-era emergency fundraising was discharged today.

http://www.cityam.com/275912/jury-discharged-trial-senior-barclays-executives-accused

MPs have urged city regulators to investigate Lloyds Bank executives over an alleged “cover up” of fraud at its HBOS unit in Reading.

JK Rowling‘s former personal assistant has been ordered to repay £18,734 to the Harry Potter author after she was found to have fraudulently used her credit card to buy toiletries and foreign currency.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jk-rowling-apos-ex-pa-232811682.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw

Today Carlo Palombo and Colin Bermingham were sentenced to a total of 9 years imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court for manipulating the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR) at the height of the financial crisis.

https://www.sfo.gov.uk/2019/04/01/senior-bankers-sentenced-to-9-years-for-rigging-euribor-rate/

A man has today pleaded guilty to fraud after claiming up to £4.7m worth of European Union and Welsh Government grants.

Mike Lynch mischaracterised revenues from clients including Tottenham Hotspur and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), in order to inflate software sales figures, the High Court heard yesterday

https://economia.icaew.com/news/march-2019/autonomy-trial-lynch-hid-spurs-and-sfo-revenues#.XJ9UnFSYO2Y.twitter