UK GOVERNMENT MISSED KEY OPPORTUNITIES TO TACKLE FRAUD BY SQUASHING CRIME BILL AMENDMENTS
September 12th, 2023
The UK Government has missed key opportunities to tackle fraud and strengthen its Economic Crime Bill (1), as it is debated and amended in parliament, campaign group Spotlight on Corruption has complained (2). It pointed to three “game changing” amendments to the bill passed in the upper House of Lords that it rejected through its majority in the House of Commons, starting with removing an SME (small-and-medium-sized enterprise) waiver from a planned ‘failure to prevent fraud offence’, leaving SMEs themselves more vulnerable to fraud: “Anti-fraud ...
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