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Auditors uncover examples of fraud in Stoke

Published on 7 Jan 2010 under category: legal

Corporate fraud lawyers have discovered a number of errors after analysing figures provided by Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

The checks, which were undertaken as part of the National Fraud Initiative, discovered over £300,000 of fraud and administrative errors, The Sentinel reports.

Some 13 separate sets of data were analysed under the supervision of the government and the Audit Commission, which revealed numerous housing and council tax benefit claims, market traders' licenses and examples of council staff salaries.

"We provide information to the Audit Commission, which then does a data comparison exercise with other public bodies to identify any potential fraud," explained Sue Woodall, chief internal auditor, to the newspaper.

"We are currently part-way through that and hope to complete it by the end of January."

She confirmed that a number of errors were uncovered in addition to "a few fraud cases".

Last month, the Sunday Mercury reported that 67-year-old Mohammed Ajaib, who is attributed with inventing the Birmingham Balti, is being investigated for a multi-million pound mortgage fraud in the Stoke region.


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