Live coverage from the ACFE Global Fraud Conference, including anti-fraud articles, session highlights, video clips and photo gallery.
“We must work to build a system of transparency and accountability.” Xavier Justo, whistleblower of the 1MDB scandal, receives the Cliff Robertson Sentinel Award for choosing truth over self, speaks about his and his family’s experience of whistleblower retaliation.
Read MoreAyleen Charlotte, fraud victim turned hero, started off her keynote address at the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe with the story that thrust her into the spotlight — a romantic tryst with a man she later learned was a convicted fraudster. Her romantic past — an emotional roller coaster and whirlwind romance, turned negative mental states, turned sweet revenge plot — was the subject of the 2022 Netflix documentary, “The Tinder Swindler,” watched by people across 200 countries around the world.
Read MoreTaking the first step to becoming a whistleblower is a daunting task, and Pav Gill did so reluctantly. But the soft-spoken lawyer who famously brought down the once-revered German payments firm Wirecard has some inspirational words for those individuals who feel helpless in the face of enormous frauds and the powerful players who perpetrate them.
Read MorePast ACFE Global Fraud Conference Fraud Museum giveaways featured artifacts, memorabilia, documents and other pieces of fraud history collected by ACFE founder and Chairman Dr. Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA. But this year we’re doing something a little different and featuring some of the most infamous frauds in country music to honor our host city, Nashville, home of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Read MoreWith each new edition, the ACFE’s Report to the Nations shows the importance of tips in detecting fraud. In the upcoming 2020 edition of the report, 43% of the fraud cases were discovered through tips, and in organizations with fraud awareness training and formal reporting mechanisms, the number rose to 56%. Establishing a hotline, anonymous web form, email address or other tip reporting mechanism is often an inexpensive, and highly effective, way to detect fraud in organizations of all sizes and industries. But what use is a tip reporting tool if no one uses it?
Stephen Kohn spends a lot of his time pondering this question. Kohn is widely recognized as one of the U.S.’s leading whistleblower and qui tam attorneys, and currently represents Danske Bank whistleblower Howard Wilkinson. In his keynote address at the 2020 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe, presented virtually, he asked attendees, “How do you create a whistleblower program where most employees will report?”
Read MoreIn October 2015, Inc. magazine featured a young, blonde woman wearing a black turtleneck on its cover. Her name was Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of a company called Theranos, and they declared she was “the next Steve Jobs.” Theranos promised to revolutionize blood testing as the world knew it — and investors couldn’t throw money into the company fast enough.
Read MoreTheranos whistleblower and ACFE Sentinel Award winner. Shultz retold how he discovered the fraud at Theranos and his tense meeting with Theranos lawyers at his grandfather’s (George Shultz, Former Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget) home.
“As soon as my grandfather is out of earshot, my step-grandmother is actually there, and she turns to me and goes, ‘Henry Kissinger thinks it’s all fake. He thinks the box doesn’t exist,’ “ said Shultz. “And I was like, ‘Yes! Why is nobody listening to Henry Kissinger right now?!”
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