Don’t be open to abuse
13 September 2012
In the second of a three-part series on procurement fraud, Jennifer Major explains who commits it and where organisations are most vulnerable
Who commits procurement fraud? Answering that question is not easy, but all the available research presents a disturbing picture. “If you make it easy for people to steal from you, they will” is the view of Frank Abagnale, special investigator at the FBI and the fraud world’s best-known “poacher turned gamekeeper”.
That may sound like a pretty damning...