
FRAUD PREVENTION AND DETECTION
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• A trusted bookkeeper dresses in the latest fashion and drives a
luxury foreign sedan, telling everyone she had consistently done
well at the local casino. In fact, she had created a dozen ghost
employees and pocketed the proceeds. This scheme might have
been cut short if someone had delved more deeply into how she
had been able to afford this lifestyle;
• The chief nancial ofcer (CFO) of a multinational mining rm
recommended getting rid of a national auditing rm and hiring
a small, two- person rm with an ofce in a suburban strip mall
with no experience in the extractive sector. It was just a smart way ...