Editor’s Note Week 06, 2023 Read time: 5 minutes This week, we’ve got a mix of good and bad news. On the bright side: Orange is lighting up Sierra Leone with a brand-new Orange Digital Center. Nigerian fintech unicorn Flutterwave expanded into North Africa and flew out of financial crime allegations in Kenya, while Partech…
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When bad actors take advantage of return policies, return fraud is the result. It’s the act of defrauding businesses using its return process and it’s a problem in the retail industry.If you think fraudulent returns aren’t a problem, think again. American hospitality and retail sectors reported $33.9 billion worth of merchandise was affected in 2019.What…
Thursday 28 April 2022 7:04 pm (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)The UK’s serious fraud office (SFO) has returned £1m in stolen funds to more than 200 victims of Australian fraudster Jeffrey Revell-Reade. The SFO said it had handed over another £1m in stolen funds, on top of the £3m already returned, after the fraudster conned…
Navigation for News Categories Six people have been charged by the Serious Fraud Office for alleged corrupt behaviour involving road maintenance contracts in South Auckland. Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook The SFO alleges two former employees of Broadspectrum – previously known as Transfield – received bribes in exchange for awarding road maintenance work to subcontractors…
As the pandemic continues to affect how we work, socialise, shop and conduct business, so it has increased opportunities for digital fraud and cyber crime. Jason Lane-Sellers explores the latest LexisNexis Risk Solutions ‘Cybercrime report’ By Jason Lane-Sellers, EMEA director of market planning, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Published: 23 Dec 2021 The pandemic continues to affect…
Payoffs Through “Piggy Bank” for Ex-President’s Inner Circle Cleared Path for Multibillion-Dollar Mining Project Meant to Fund National Infrastructure Dirty Money Flowed Through International Banks A massive deal between Chinese state-owned engineering firms and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to trade mineral wealth to fund urgently needed infrastructure projects concealed a multimillion-dollar embezzlement and…
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images From birth to the year 2006 in her first day of testimony Elizabeth Holmes, her hair down and her makeup muted relative to her Theranos days, spelled her name for the court. After the prosecution rested its case in the morning, the defense called her as their third witness, about…
The past year has been a nightmare for most businesses—and a godsend for telehealth.Not only did remote health practices suddenly flourish during the pandemic, with various types of telehealth businesses mushrooming across the US and the world, but in the US the emergency pushed the government and private insurance providers to relax their reimbursement requirements.…