As Red Lion Chambers barrister Jack Talbot writes in this week’s NLJ, ‘fraud is a shapeshifting creature of its time’.
Post-pandemic (or at least the lockdown stage of it), fraudsters are on ‘an upward trend’ and ‘endlessly adaptable in their ability to exploit new technology’. It now accounts for more than 40% of all recorded crime in the UK.
So, what can be done? Talbot surveys the staggering extent of fraud, and assesses the efforts to date of the UK’s crimefighting authorities. He highlights the main element holding them back.
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