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HMRC have made several arrests, and Newcastle United and West Ham United's grounds have been raided in connection with a fraud investigation. You can read more about this story from the BBC by clicking here.

The main theme of the WCO IT Conference to be held in Tiblisi, Georgia in June this year is “The Power of Data – Advancing Border Management”. There are many aspects to advancing border management, including inter agency and cross-border cooperation, although in reality this is much easier said than done.

First it was a black hole in Tesco’s finances, now BT has a serious issue with “Factoring and Leasing” transactions in its Italian operation. These are only two examples of specialist and exotic financial transactions employed by major organisations - to do what? Make the books look better? Hide losses? Achieve the local management’s KPIs? In both examples the organisations have stated integrity principles:

Once again a multi-billion euro industry seems to have fallen foul of the US Foreign and Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act 2010. Recently the media has been reporting on the start of a criminal investigation into the sales practices of Airbus. It has been reported that the SFO have arrested a number of current and former Airbus employees as part of a long running investigation into alleged corruption operating in Saudi Arabia.

The recent brouhaha about the resignation of Katrina Percy and her immediate re-instatement in a different role at Southern Health NHS Trust has completely overshadowed a number of worrying relationships.  On the 26^th July 2016 the BBC reported that the then Chief Executive, Katrina Percy, was involved in