Failure to prevent fraud… and more? Anita Clifford reports on the broadening scope of the proposed ‘failure to prevent’ offences & the likelihood of their success
- The government has announced that new failure to prevent offences provisions will be proposed as an amendment to the Economic Crime and Transparency Bill currently before Parliament.
- The provisions are likely to attract cross-party support and would make it an offence for an organisation to fail to prevent fraud and possibly also money laundering.
- Organisations will be compelled to review their internal controls.
- If the offence includes the failure to prevent money laundering just how the legislation will interact with anti-money laundering regulation will need to be worked out.
A radical expansion of the failure to prevent model is in sight following the government’s backing of a new corporate offence of failure to prevent (FTP) fraud and possibly other conduct such as money laundering. On 25 January 2023, security minister Tom Tugendhat MP announced that
