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NFA Invite 1st Dec 2011

Dear LAIOG Members

Fighting Fraud Locally – 1st December 2011, London

The cost of fraud committed against Local Government was last year estimated at £2.1 billion. It is up to all of us to work together to tackle fraud to ...

International Fraud Awareness Week

A Week Dedicated to Fraud Awareness, Detection and Prevention

Organizations around the world lose an estimated five percent of their annual revenues to fraud, according to a survey of fraud experts conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE ...

PANORAMA - Britain On The Fiddle

Thursday 3rd November 2011 [Today], 20:00 on BBC One (except Scotland)

It's estimated that twenty-two billion pounds of taxpayers' money is effectively stolen or lost every year through fraud and error - a sizeable chunk of that is benefit ...

Why Fighting Fraud is a Local Problem

Fraud is prevalent across the public and private sectors: no sector and very few organisations are spared. Local government is no exception.              Read More

Successful 2011 Conference for LAIOG

The annual conference took place in Birmingham this week, and attracted 179 delegates representing 130 Local Authorities, as well as a good number of people from private sector organisations. 

The AGM resulted in a change of Chair on the LAIOG ...