Fraud

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Criminals have been prevented from fraudulently withdrawing around £29 million from bank accounts over the last five years, according to a report into serious organised crime in Scotland. The report by Scotland’s Serious Organised Crime Taskforce (SOCT) updates on the success of the Bank

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Scotland’s business resilience organisation has changed its name to reflect a rising national threat from cyber crime and fraud. The Scottish Business Resilience Centre, the not-for-profit dedicated to helping educate and support Scottish organisations to avoid the fallout from cyber crime, wi

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The number of fraud cases over £100,000 being heard in Scottish courts rose significantly last year, according to KPMG UK’s latest bi-annual Fraud Barometer. A total of 24 cases totalling £17.4m reached Scottish courts in 2022, compared to 2021, when 16 cases worth £5.9m came

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One of the most devastating and costly forms of cybercrime that is affecting thousands of people across the UK is being tackled through a research project at Abertay University. Conducted by the project team, Dr Lynsay Shepherd, Dr Andrea Szymkowiak, Professor Graham Johnson and PhD student Marc Kyd

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Three former lawyers and two other men who masterminded a £1.48 million bank and property money-laundering operation have been jailed for a total of 30 years and four months. Solicitors Iain Robertson, Alastair Blackwood and David Lyons along with Mohammed Aziz and Robert Ferguson, were handed

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Police are no longer interested in catching scammers and con artists, a top fraud lawyer has claimed. Clare Montgomery KC, of Matrix Chambers, said she did not believe police “have any interest in prosecuting fraud anywhere”.

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The number of alleged fraud cases exceeding £100,000 has risen dramatically in the first half of 2022, according to KPMG UK’s latest fraud barometer. A total of 14 cases with a total value of £14 million reached Scottish courts in the first six months of the year &nd

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The number of alleged fraud cases being heard in Scottish courts rose dramatically last year, according to KPMG UK’s latest Fraud Barometer. A total of 16 cases totalling £5.9 million reached Scottish courts in 2021, skyrocketing from 2020 when only one case worth £240,000 came to

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Homebuyers are being warned about a spike in scams which have seen victims defrauded out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. The Law Society of England and Wales has joined forces with the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) and Action Fraud to issue flyers warning of the risk of payment diversion

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A trustee who embezzled hundreds of thousands from a charity has been ordered to pay back £700,000 in profit. Architect Ian Brash, from Wallyford, East Lothian, admitted embezzling £358,832 from the Dr Robert Malcolm Trust between August 2010 and September 2014.

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The owner of a Highland golf club has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for stealing more than £150,000 in tax. Jon Wiggett, who owns Brahan Golf Club, submitted 13 false VAT repayment claims between 2014 and 2017.

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