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Accountants turn into white-collar crime stoppers – 17 December 2017
Article sponsored by Chartered Accountants Australian and New Zealand. A number of fraud control practitioners offer their practical views on what commercial organisations can and should do to reduce the risk of internal fraud and corruption.
Where white collar crime meets a wet lettuce leaf – 16 December 2017
Commonwealth Bank Australia’s senior financial planner Ricky Gillespie has pleaded guilty to foregoing clients’ signatures when working at the bank.
Bitcoin: Will we ever actually bank with it? – 4 December 2017
With anonymous cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin seeking to revolutionise financial transactions, Wall Street and Silicon Valley innovators are questioning the validity of further applications of the systems, such as use in everyday banking.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/bitcoin-will-we-ever-actually-bank-with-it-20171202-gzxjcx.html
All that glitters was a fraud – 1 December 2017
Glenn James Tonkin, senior manager at Anglo American allegedly used a series of false invoices to steal more that $4.1m from the company. Tonkin pretended to be other people in order to receive payments he wasn’t entitled to, and has plead guilty to 10 counts of fraud.
https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/all-that-glitters-was-a-fraud/3279037/
