Cafod, the overseas development agency of the Catholic Church, said: "it cannot make sense to weaken the fight against financial crime by absorbing fraud investigation in the National Crime Agency, where it will inevitably be treated as that Agency's lower priority".
On paper, Russia has a strong case: fraud is a crime in Spain too.
Mr. Ferrer, the United States attorney, said he had seen tax fraud overtake violent crime in Overtown, a poor, high-crime section of Miami.
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The category of cyber crime includes fraudulent online shopping activity, computer software service fraud, computer misuse crime, offences linked to computer viruses and spyware and computer hacking.
There has been widespread concern that the battle against fraud and economic crime would be made less effective if the SFO's lawyers and investigators were separated into different institutions.
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Affinity fraud is a perennial crime because we want to trust people, particularly if they are civic leaders, clergy or just likeable neighbors.
I've said all along that if more documents were identified in the Minnesota case as possibly containing evidence of crime or fraud that I would request them.
Businesses will be asked about which areas of crime, such as fraud, burglary and anti-social behaviour, concern them the most.
Online banking is growing by 40 percent annually according to company officials and most fraud is now committed by international crime organizations.
That's because the coalition government's programme for government contains a commitment to create "a single agency to take on the work of tackling serious economic crime done by the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Services Authority and the Office of Fair Trading".
In the decision of Skilling v the United States the Supreme Court made a ruling on Honest Services fraud by stating that to prove this crime, the government must show an exchange between something of value and an act taken in response.
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He was found guilty of six offences of fraud and and three under the Proceeds of Crime Act at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court.
But the Enron conviction, achieved with scarce direct evidence of fraud, might indicate that white-collar crime is becoming more like the rats in the warehouse.
Housley was also convicted of income tax fraud and a separate charge under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Was the SEC seeing a lot of whistleblower tips for accounting fraud and disclosure or was there another category of crime that was more popular with whistleblowers?
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We need to have the same authority to go after terrorists that we have for organized crime figures already who engage in wire fraud or something comparable to that.
We're asking for very carefully controlled, court supervised intelligence gathering information, powers that we already have for drug traffickers, organized crime figures, and people who engage in fraud.
President Hollande also announced that he was creating a new agency to fight financial fraud, and appointing a special prosecutor to deal with financial crime.
"As often happens when tackling organised crime, our success has prompted changes to the fraud including, in this case, changes to the underlying pattern of trading, " he said.
The Nashville-based firm's problems came to light in 1997, at a time when the U.S. Department of Justice viewed health care fraud as the nation's top criminal threat after violent crime.
Whistleblowers are reporting that accounting and disclosure fraud is still occurring and probably happening more than any other financial crime.
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After the state insurance agency discovered the fraud, it warned this FA that it would inform FINRA about the crime.
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"We are losing, haemorrhaging money if you like, through white-collar crime, " says Ros Wright, who now chairs the Fraud Advisory Panel.
"Even in a corporate fraud context, you could certainly have a rogue employee who committed some crime but the higher-ups are not criminally culpable, " he said.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 72, 000 complaints about Internet fraud in 2008 that were referred to law enforcement agencies for further investigation.
Moreover, while the SEC makes headlines with proceedings against insider trading, argaably a victimless crime, it seems at times that the biggest perpetrators of securities fraud go scotfree.
Martinez pleaded guilty to a number of felonies including solicitation of a violent crime, interstate commerce in murder for hire, witness tampering and mail fraud.
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The Feds going soft on financial crime makes absolutely no sense, if you take into account the big business of financial fraud over the past 12 years.
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