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OSINT CAN LAY GROUNDWORK FOR A SOLID FOCUSED FRAUD INVESTIGATION – AND EVEN MAKE A CASE, SAYS ACFE EXPERT
While fraud investigators benefit from emotional smarts and intuition, the ability to dig into online open-source intelligence – or OSINT – offers new practitioners an excellent way to scope out targets before subjects or witnesses are interviewed face-to-face. Mason Wilder, a research manager at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), stressed how OSINT has been developed by experts of different disciplines and backgrounds sharing techniques to deliver an “almost limitless wealth of information and techniques that are incredibly valuable to investigators and often available free of charge.…
UKRAINE AND RUSSIA CAN SECTOR FACES MAJOR DISRUPTION THROUGH RUSSIAN INVASION
The Russian government’s bloody and destructive invasion of Ukraine has harmed operations of the metal packaging sector and their aluminium and steel suppliers in both Ukraine and Russia, having an international impact on the can manufacturing and filling industry. New records are being set for the international price of aluminium, up 28% in 2022, reaching USD3,849 per tonne (1) on March 4, then settling back to USD3,398, approximately level with the price following a spike that occurred on February 24, right after the invasion began.…
SFO INVESTIGATES GBP282 MILLION ARENA TELEVISION FRAUD
The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating a GBP282 million (USD377 million) fraud linked to collapsed broadcaster Arena Television. The company, which offered broadcast trucks for major sporting and music events to the UK’s leading television stations, including the BBC and ITV, folded in November 2021, owing 55 lenders for purchases of equipment that it never actually bought.…
RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK FUNDS FROZEN IN USA, EU AND UK
Russia today faced a further tightening of sanctions as its armed forces continued their unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, with the Biden administration freezing any Russian central bank assets held within the USA or by Americans. The same order has been imposed on funds owned by Russia’s National Wealth Fund and ministry of finance.…
US AUTO SECTOR CONSIDERS WHETHER BREATH AND TOUCH SENSORS WILL BEST CAMERAS AS MANDATORY IMPAIRMENT MONITORS
The US auto sector has been considering what technologies are best to comply with a mandate requiring automakers to install technologies preventing drivers from operating vehicles when impaired by alcohol or drugs. The requirement was attached to the USD1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law by President Joe Biden in November (2021) and aims to improve road safety amid rising road fatalities. …
ASIA PACIFIC COATINGS DEVELOPERS TARGET NANOTECH ADDITIVES TO GENERATE MARKET GROWTH
The Asia-Pacific paint and coatings industry will play a key role the growing global nanotechnology-based coating market, with the region expected to register most significant expansion of production in the coming decade, said a market report titled Nano Coatings Market Size, Growth, Industry Analysis, 2022-2029, published in December 2021 by India-based DataM Intelligence (1).…
DUTCH UNIVERSITY HEAD CALLS TO CAP INTERNATIONAL STUDENT NUMBERS
UNIVERSITIES in the Netherlands are calling on the Dutch Government to cap the number of international students to maintain the quality of their degree programmes, Pieter Duisenberg, president of the Association of Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), has told University World News (UWN) in an interview on February 14.…
AMERICAN COMPANY PROMISES HONESTY IN HEALTH CLAIMS OVER HALAL-CERTIFIED CANNABIS PRODUCTS
The CEO of the American company that has been awarded a halal certification for hemp products containing active CBD (cannabidiol) ingredients has said his business will be contesting false claims about CBD, a non-psychoactive compound treating pain and relieving anxiety.
Fareed Syed, CEO of HalalCBD, based in Las Vegas, USA, told Salaam Gateway, that his company sells CBD tinctures and gummies in three flavours.…
TUNISIAN HALAL POULTRY SECTOR SAVED FROM BIRD FLU BY CLOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS
The Tunisian halal poultry sector has claimed its good practice has been preventing livestock from becoming infected with bird flu, that can infect human consumers. Tunisia’s vulnerability to the disease is particularly intense because the country lies on the key wild bird migration routes between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.…
LOCAL START-UPS INNOVATE IN ASIA’S HIJAB HAIRCARE, GCC MARKET STILL UNTAPPED
Global haircare brands are starting to recognise a gap in the Muslim market as they launch products for hijab-wearing women and include them in marketing campaigns. L’Oréal’s Kérastase is the latest international brand to target this segment, having positioned its first anti-hair fall (loss) range, Genesis, to appeal to hijab-wearing women in Malaysia.…