With the recent rise in awareness of financial abuse of elderly individuals and the misconduct of executors of deceased estates, it is imperative to validate any suspected wrongdoing in order to pursue legal proceedings.
Employee fraud can be perpetrated through the misappropriation of assets and/or financial statement misstatement.
To minimise the impact of fraud in Australia and globally, we are promoting anti-fraud awareness and education with a series of articles during International Fraud Awareness Week. This article is the first in our series and takes a closer look at the most commonly experienced types of fraud, the warning signs, and fraud detection.
When there is commingling of assets, as often seen in family law or commercial disputes, it can become difficult to identify asset ownership and asset value. In these instances, asset tracing is used to determine the source of the asset and how the asset has been used prior, and in the course of the dispute.