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Trusted Advisers? – accountant’s fraud leads to 5 year jail sentence

Posted on 10 May, 2019

An accountant who admitted defrauding £3.4 million from high-profile clients, such as pop star Rita Ora and rugby player Matt Dawson, has been jailed for more than five years following a “lengthy and complex investigation”.

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Expert and independent

Posted on 7 May, 2019

In many complex legal matters, from family disputes to corporate litigation, the courts need to call on professional advice from so-called “expert witnesses”.

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Financial investigation makes the news

Posted on 29 Apr, 2019

An investigation into an organised crime gang’s money laundering activities made the headlines recently when it won the Innovative Approach to Sanctions and Redress category at the Government Counter Fraud Awards 2019. HM Revenue &

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Blurred lines in an investigation

Posted on 15 Apr, 2019

The discovery of more private jets than first thought in the case against Carlos Ghosn, former Nissan chief, is the latest in the evidence trail found by investigators examining the joint finances of Renault and

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People as well as paper

Posted on 5 Apr, 2019

A recent story in the media about an enquiry that was started following a tip-off by a whistleblower, is a reminder that interviews are as useful as the analysis of documents in a forensic accounting

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The importance of documentation

Posted on 29 Mar, 2019

When talking about the forensic investigation of suspected financial wrongdoing, most people instinctively think of accountants poring over bank statements and balance sheets, but that is only half of the story.

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Call for official investigation into London Capital & Finance

Posted on 22 Mar, 2019

Chair of the Treasury Select Committee, Nicky Morgan, has written to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) demanding a full-blown investigation into regulatory failures around the collapse of London Capital & Finance (LCF), which was discussed

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Initial investigations

Posted on 18 Mar, 2019

When there are concerns about the finances of a business, usual practice is to bring in forensic accountants to find out if there has been anything untoward going on. Depending on their findings, the matter

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Missing coins mystery

Posted on 8 Mar, 2019

Financial investigators have discovered that the digital wallets of the QuadrigaCX exchange had been emptied of millions in cryptocurrency months before founder Gerald Cotten died.

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Where has the money come from?

Posted on 1 Mar, 2019

Yet again the work of the forensic accountant has come to the public’s attention via television. In this week’s episode of Shetland, DI Jimmy Perez asks one of his sergeants to get ‘the forensic team’

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