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  2. Fraud Act 2006 - Wikipedia

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    The Fraud Act 2006 (c 35) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which affects England and Wales and Northern Ireland. It was given royal assent on 8 November 2006, and came into effect on 15 January 2007.

  3. Indictable offence - Wikipedia

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    In many common law jurisdictions (e.g. England and Wales, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury (in contrast to a summary offence).

  4. Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception - Wikipedia

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    This offence replaced the offence of obtaining credit by fraud, contrary to section 13(1) of the Debtors Act 1869. [4] The elements of the actus reus are similar to the offence of obtaining property by deception: There must be a deception. This has the same meaning as for section 15 (according to section 16(3) of the Theft Act 1968).

  5. False accounting - Wikipedia

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    False accounting is a legal term for a type of fraud, considered a statutory offence in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. England and Wales [ edit ]

  6. Serious Fraud Office (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    The UK's Serious Fraud Office spent £16.2 million on its corruption investigation into the oil consultancy Unaoil, with nearly a third allocated to external legal fees. The investigation faced significant challenges, including the quashing of three bribery convictions due to non-disclosure of evidence and the collapse of a fourth trial [145].

  7. Former tech exec admits to fraud involving a scheme to boost ...

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    A former technology executive has pleaded guilty to a single count of fraud involving a scheme to artificially inflate the share price of photo and video distributor , federal officials said Friday.

  8. National Fraud Authority - Wikipedia

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    The annual fraud indicator for 2012 was published in March 2012, and estimated that fraud costed the UK over £73 billion that year. This was up from £38 billion in 2011. When broken down by sector, the indicator revealed that fraud losses to the public sector amounted to £20.3 billion, the private sector lost £45.5 billion, the not-for ...

  9. National Fraud Intelligence Bureau - Wikipedia

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    Action Fraud does not investigate the cases and cannot advise you on the progress of a case." [14] There were about 85 call-handling staff working on the Action Fraud helpline in November 2014 which fell to 70 by December 2015. [15] Action Fraud staff are employed by contractor Concentrix. [16] Numbers increased to about 80 staff in 2018. [8]