Just Integrity Solutions: March 2013

Wednesday 27 March 2013

The World's Most Ethical Companies

Only the National Australia Bank and the Westpac Bank make the list for Australia.....

http://m1.ethisphere.com/wme2013/index.html

Tuesday 26 March 2013

Brisbane: False Invoicing - an accounts payable clerk, received $769,029.41 by providing 181 fraudulent invoices and having company funds deposited into her daughter's bank account.

BRISBANE grandmother Sonja McLeod loved nothing more than making family, friends and Third World children happy by lavishing them with gifts and financial support.

But the only way the 53-year-old was able to make that happen was fleecing her employer out of almost $770,000 over a five year period.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/sonja-mcleod-jailed-for-fleecing-employer-lindsay-australia-of-770k-to-spend-on-gifts-and-charity/story-e6freoof-1226606826817

Sunday 24 March 2013

Gobbler's Knob: Punxsutawney Phil charged with fraud!?

Buckeye Chuck, the Ohio groundhog who also forecast an early spring, will get immunity if he testifies against Phil......

http://au.news.yahoo.com/odd/a/-/odd/16429881/punxsutawney-phil-charged-with-fraud-for-early-spring-forecast/

Tuesday 19 March 2013

Brisbane: Queensland Health $16m fraud and the fake prince

Morehu-Barlow's criminal record stretched back to 1998 in New Zealand when he defrauded his employer of about $32,000 and he was convicted in 1999 and given an eight-month, non-residential sentence.

In September 2007 he committed his first fraud at Queensland Health, funnelling a few thousand dollars into his own bank account. It grew from there with Morehu-Barlow setting up a fake charity called Healthy Initiatives and Choices and authorising Queensland Health grants to this body.

To uncover the fraud all someone in the department had to do was put the Australian Business Number into a free website search and they would have been led to Morehu-Barlow's name and he had even listed his own Teneriffe address and phone number as the contacts for the organisation.

Queensland Health came close to busting him when they conducted an audit and one transaction to Healthy Initiatives and Choices was selected at random to be checked. They requested the documentation from Morehu-Barlow but he just simply did not hand it over and they did not chase it up.

A simple fraud; bound to be discovered but not until December 2011!

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/from-scavenging-for-food-to-a-multimilliondollar-lifestyle-built-on-fraud-20130319-2gd64.html#ixzz2O2WCuAv3

& more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-19/fake-prince-gets-14-years-jail-over-16m-fraud/4581720

& more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/fake-prince-splashed-the-cash-at-clubs-20130319-2gd6p.html

Monday 18 March 2013

Iraq: The real intelligence failure...

Iraq: The real intelligence failure was not the failure to uncover certain facts, but a failure to consider alternative hypotheses.
http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2013/03/18/Iraq-The-real-intelligence-failure.aspx