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A council has made a High Court "fraud" claim against a businessman and a firm he ran.
Thurrock Council was left with debts of more than £1bn after a series of investments largely in solar farms.
A council spokesman said proceedings had been issued against Liam Kavanagh and Rockfire Capital.
The Cabinet Office has announced plans for a number of AI discovery projects over the next 12 months to identify new ways to detect fraud against the public sector.
Minister of State at the Cabinet Office Baroness Neville-Rolfe said the first project will use AI to identify entities registering and bankrupting successive companies to avoid paying debts, known as ‘phoenixing’.
All of the projects will tested by the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA) in accordance with the Government’s Generative AI Framework.
Fraud continues to be a significant and growing issue across all sectors in the UK, with stats showing that hundreds of millions are being lost every year; unfortunately, the public sector is far from an outlier to this trend. What can technology do?
https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/using-technology-to-help-local-authorities-to-counter-fraudsters/174708/
Public Accounts Committee chair questions commitments to transparency and flags "vagueness" on investment for recovery work.
Cabinet Office permanent secretary Sir Alex Chisholm and Treasury perm sec James Bowler have been urged to be more transparent over the challenges government faces in battling fraud and corruption, following a report by watchdog MPs.
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/perm-secs-get-flak-over-action-to-combat-fraud-and-corruption
Man accused of cheating the bankrupt Thurrock Council out of millions of pounds in order to buy luxury goods, is now being sued.
According to leaked documents, it was revealed last July that Liam Kavanagh (47) used Thurrock Council’s money to buy luxury goods.
A manager of a GP surgery in Port Talbot who stole more than £320,000 from the business has been jailed.
As practice manager at Fairfield surgery Clare Boland, 51, paid herself thousands of pounds a month on top of her £53,000 salary, disguising the fraud as payments to a locum doctor.
A ex-council worker and a roofing firm worker have been jailed for fraud and bribery after they conspired to defraud New Forest District Council.
Former council maintenance operative Richard Cullen, aged 55 from Luton, received bribes from 34-year-old Mark Diaper, who worked at a roofing company in Southampton which is now no longer trading. The bribes were paid to secure work for which inflated invoices were submitted. The amount overcharged was more than £88,000 but the jobs referred to the company were worth much more.
According to fraud prevention service Cifas, there has been an increase in people fraudulently claiming the council tax single person discount.
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Households with only one adult living at the address can apply to receive a 25% discount on their council tax bill.
But according to recent research by Cifas, one in five (21%) people say they, or someone they knew, had fraudulently claimed the discount in the past 12 months – an increase from 19% in 2022.
https://www.yourmoney.com/household-bills/news-household-bills/increase-in-council-tax-fraud-claims/
Waverley and Guildford councils hit the crisis button this week after an internal investigation into an £18.5 million overspend found “a number of serious areas of concern”.
A housing maintenance contractor used by Guildford Borough Council is already under investigation by the police after irregularities in the authority’s housing revenue account were flagged last July.
A former Goldman Sachs analyst has been found guilty of six counts of insider trading and three counts of fraud following a London trial brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Mohammed Zina, 35, was convicted on Thursday following a 12-week trial at Southwark Crown Court and five days of jury deliberation.
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