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How can the UK’s new Covid fraud team avoid being another toothless tiger?

Tigers in a Landscape, 1884. Creator: Kunii Obun.
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Tony McClements welcomes the UK’s new COVID fraud asset recovery team but raises concern about efficiency and effectiveness.

Like previous administrations, the current UK government is promising to chase those who have defrauded COVID support schemes.

The newly-created Public Authorities Fraud Investigation and Enforcement Service (PAFIES) has been given significant powers, including search and seizure, compulsory information gathering, civil penalties, and direct recovery from bank accounts and

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