INVESTIGATION COSTS JUMP AS OVER 80% OF COMPANIES HIT SIGNIFICANTLY BY FRAUD

The costs of investigating fraud have increased over the past three years, according to 79% of respondents to a global survey, with 26% overall and 49% of companies with a turnover of more than USD15 billion seeing this increase as significant, said risk assessment specialists Kroll. The second volume of its Global Fraud and Risk Report (1) said that faced with “unprecedented challenges” over the last two years caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and increasingly complex supply chains, 82% of respondents said their organisations had been significantly impacted by ...


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