Rahman Ravelli assesses the Public Sector Fraud Authority’s chances of being a success

With the government having announced the creation of the Public Sector Fraud Authority, Rahman Ravelli have wrote an article about the challenge it faces.

In this piece, which was published by Lawyer Monthly, Rahman Ravelli detail the scale of the fraud problem that the new Authority will have to tackle.

Those in favour of the new body think it will ensure that government departments are held to account regarding the identification and prevention of fraud and will work well alongside HM Revenue and Customs’ taxpayer protection taskforce.

But Rahman Ravelli argue that with the government set to write off an estimated £4 billion of taxpayers’ money that was lost to fraudulent COVID-19 payments, the new Authority may be arriving too late to be effective. They believe that the money being invested in the new body is dwarfed by the amounts the government is losing to fraud.

Rahman Ravelli conclude that it will take lengthy, intense efforts to try and recover even a small percentage of what the government has paid out to fraudsters – and the investment in the Authority is unlikely to be enough to cover this.

While the new measures do initially appear impressive, Rahman Ravelli say that they are unlikely to help eradicate such a major problem.

Rahman Ravelli's article featured on Lawyer Monthly.

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