Akila Ratnayake

2/28/2025 2:40:01 PM

2024 in Review: Major Fraud Events and What We Can Learn from Them

By Akila Ratnayake Hugo Ninham Lefki Loizou

Introduction In late 2023, we published an article asking whether the macroeconomic environment of high inflation and high interest rates...

2/3/2025 1:52:35 PM

By Akila Ratnayake Jem Mayler

Introduction £47 billion of loans given out of taxpayers’ money. £4.9 billion estimated to be lost to fraud.1 Under the government...

11/19/2024 2:00:05 PM

By Louise Hatton Emma Walker

The final UK Government guidance on failure to prevent fraud has now been published Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023:...

12/19/2023 2:08:13 PM

By Akila Ratnayake Sasi-Kanth Mallela

Patisserie Valerie is a British patisserie and café chain. In 2018, the company found itself at the centre of an alleged accounting...

12/21/2022 2:49:08 PM

By Akila Ratnayake

We are experiencing a period of financial turmoil not seen for decades. At the risk of stating the obvious, the intense damage inflicted...