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Preventing fraud: better together?

21 February 2025 / Michael Goodwin KC , Theo Burges
Issue: 8105 / Categories: Features , Fraud , Criminal
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Michael Goodwin KC & Theo Burges explain how deferred prosecution agreements can be used in tandem with the new failure to prevent fraud offence
  • Key aspects of the new failure to prevent fraud (FTP) offence.
  • The core principles of the FTP government guidance.
  • Why the deferred prosecution agreements brand is likely to be expanded by and used in tandem with new FTP offence.

The long-awaited guidance on failure to prevent fraud (FPF) was published by the Home Office on 6 November 2024. The new law, which will come into effect on 1 September 2025, makes it an offence for an incorporated body to fail to prevent certain types of dishonesty and fraud-based conduct occurring while lacking adequate fraud prevention procedures being in place.

In and of itself, this represents another weapon in the arsenal of prosecuting authorities, particularly the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). But the spectre of the likely interaction between FPF and deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) also looms for corporates. This article aims to

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