Sir Paul McCartney and Tom Jones are among the victims of an elaborate royalties scam by two Italian music producers. The fraudsters conspired to claim authorship of Jones’s song Sex Bomb – written by Mousse T. & Errol Rennalls – and McCartney’s My Love, a song the former Beatles star…
Insolvency trade body R3 has called for the reintroduction of criminal bankruptcy in a bid to target fraud According to R3, bringing back criminal bankruptcy orders would allow the retrieval of funds from defendants in a more effective way than permitted under the current system. Criminal…
Feb 12 (Reuters) – Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has secured a key corporate conviction for foreign bribery after a London court sentenced the chairman and marketing director of a UK printing company for bribing public officials in Kenya and Mauritania. Judge David Higgins on Thursday sentenced Christopher Smith,…
Online dating fraud has increased by a third in the last year at a cost of millions of pounds to the UK public, new figures show. The figures from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) show a 33% increase in online dating fraud cases last year compared with 2013, with…
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Ex-Civica and SoftwareONE man part of pair who conned ‘innocent and vulnerable’ people A former Civica and SoftwareONE employee has been jailed for his part in conning £1.2m from “innocent and vulnerable” people as part of a boiler-room fraud. Mark Sisson was a key account manager at Civica for a…
Two men have been arrested by detectives investigating a conspiracy to sell fake tickets to hundreds of fans attending Liverpool FC home games. The pair, aged 29 and 27, were detained after officers from Merseyside police’s Matrix Serious Organised Crime (MSOC) unit executed search warrants at houses in Anfield on…
BRAZEN fraudsters attempted to fleece Wigan Council out of more than £170,000. Officials told the council’s Audit, Governance and Improvement Review Committee that the authority was defrauded of £171,000. It’s believed the scam involved changing a council contractor’s bank details so legitimate payments would be diverted to a different account….
Security boost to UK More foreign terrorists, murderers and paedophiles will be kept out of the country after the UK successfully negotiated access to vital European data. The Second Generation Schengen Information System (SISII) will provide law enforcement alerts on wanted criminals, suspected terrorists, missing people, and stolen or missing…
Geoffrey Munford, director of a haulage company has been disqualified from being a director for 11 years after causing the company to submit false VAT and PAYE/NIC returns to HMRC. Mr Munford (76) has signed a disqualification undertaking after an investigation conducted by the Insolvency Service into his conduct whilst…