Private Sector

The Post Office has said it will not oppose attempts to overturn the convictions of 44 sub-postmasters wrongly accused of theft and fraud because of an IT error.

Former Audi boss Rupert Stadler on Wednesday becomes the first to stand trial in Germany over the "dieselgate" emissions scandal, five years after parent company VW admitted responsibility.

The UK is to reform its register of company information in a bid to combat fraud and money laundering, with new measures including compulsory verification of directors’ identity.

(Reuters) - The former head of now-defunct political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica has been banned from running limited liability companies in Britain for seven years for letting staff offer "unethical services", a state agency said.

Business directors will be forced to verify their identity with Companies House under new proposals from the Government to crack down on a system that has allowed infants and an unborn child to own firms.

SEON’s founders share the fraud industry’s nagging issues that fraudsters are all too aware of.

LONDON (Reuters) - Global accounting firm EY said on Tuesday it regretted not spotting fraud at German payments company Wirecard sooner and that it would improve how it verifies information from clients through greater use of technology.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Former Volkswagen <VOWG_p.DE> Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn will face charges of conspiracy to commit organised commercial fraud with a high likelihood of conviction, a court probing the carmaker's diesel emissions scandal said on Wednesday.

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Rising reports of furlough fraud could have major financial ramifications for businesses as they come further under HMRC’s spotlight, according to regulatory legal experts.

The Serious Fraud Office has charged three former executives of G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Ltd (G4S C&J) with multiple offences in relation to a multi-year scheme to defraud the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).