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A woman who used two identities to fraudulently claim more than £1 million in benefits has been jailed.
https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2020-06-08/woman-sentenced-for-fraudulently-claiming-over-1m-in-welfare-benefits/
Residents are being urged to make a note of how the NHS Test and Trace service works to help tackle fraudsters.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2020/05/29/police-know-how-covid-19-tracing-works-prevent-fraudsters/
THE former Scottish Tory candidate at the heart of the Brexit dark money row has found himself caught up in a million pound scandal involving a bankrupted Ayrshire businessman, a convicted American fraudster, oil wells in Houston, the Old Firm, and at least 34 out-of-pocket investors.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18454980.tory-dark-money-donor-richard-cook-linked-row-involving-fraudster/?ref=twtrec
The coronavirus pandemic and lockdown measures are costing one council £300,000 a month and have put the authority at extra risk of fraud.
Laurent Colombant, Continuous Monitoring Solution Manager at SAS, explores the threat that procurement fraud presents to local government, and discusses the anomalies that AI and machine learning should be aware of
https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/procurement-fraud-local-government-machine-learning/86847/
Serious and organised crime is exploiting the changing circumstances during the pandemic. From the onset of this crisis, Europol monitored these developments to help Member States understand and tackle this emerging phenomena. The full impact of the pandemic – not only on crime but also more widely on society and the economy – is not yet apparent.
https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-documents/beyond-pandemic-how-covid-19-will-shape-serious-and-organised-crime-landscape-in-eu
Scammers have been attempting to claim government business grants intended to help those struggling during the coronavirus pandemic, as Southend Council report a 200 per cent rise in fraud cases.
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2020-05-03/council-reports-200-per-cent-rise-in-fraud-cases/
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The European Union’s fraud prosecutor was wrongly removed from her previous job as head of Romania’s anti-corruption agency, the European Court of Human Rights said on Tuesday in a landmark ruling against political interference in the judiciary.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-romania-corruption/eu-fraud-prosecutor-was-wrongly-dismissed-from-romanian-anti-graft-job-court-idUKKBN22H1TT
Health secretary gave GCHQ emergency powers to obtain information relating to the security of its networks and IT systems at the beginning of April, it has emerged
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252482363/Coronavirus-GCHQ-gets-access-to-NHS-data-to-beef-up-security
Banks are to get the promised assurances over the legal and regulatory framework around new small business loans, the government has assured them.
https://www.smeweb.com/2020/05/01/bounce-back-concerns-grow-treasury-to-bounce-back-with-answers/?cli_action=1588454926.581
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