Corporate fraud: The dark side of business
Twenty years on from the collapse of Enron, are the rules preventing corporate fraud tough enough? …
I’ve sat through some big fraud trials in my time, and I always wonder what kind of person is willing to fiddle the books. According to counter-fraud expert Mark Button, criminology professor at Portsmouth University, one study shows fraudsters are likely to be extroverts with an ability to lie, able to “rationalise fraud as a normal sort of task, just shifting money around”.