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Pre-Conference
11 April 2010

Bribes, Kickbacks and Collusion: Preventing & Detecting Procurement and Contract Fraud

Ian A. Younger, CFE

Member of the Fraud Advisory Panel

INVESTiTEC - Fraud Investigation and Fraud Risk Management

Block 1: Bribes and Kickbacks

Unfortunately, bribes and kickbacks occur more often than you might think. Although they are common, they are often hard to detect and prove. Discover the most common types of corruption schemes and gain insight into how to discover them.

Block 2: Collusion Between Contractors and Employees

Many schemes involve collusion between the contractor and one or more employees of the contracting entity. Explore recognition and bid tailoring schemes. These schemes can be very costly if they are not stopped early. Unfortunately, there are many ways that organisations are defrauded by collusion. This session will focus on the following schemes: unbalanced bidding, leaking of bid data, bid splitting, unjustified sole source awards and imprest fund and petty cash abuse.

Block 3: Preventing Procurement Fraud

You may have learned tips to detect particular types of procurement fraud, but do you know what government and private organizations should do as part of an overall procurement fraud prevention and detection strategy? Learn how to implement fraud policies, ethics policies, hotlines and other programs to help stop these schemes from occurring.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• The complete procurement process
• The legal statutes used to prosecute procurement frauds
• How perpetrators can be sued civilly
• How qui tam actions work
• The red flags of bribes and kickbacks
• Conflict of interest schemes
• Bid-rigging schemes
• Unbalanced bidding and leaking bid data schemes
• Bid splitting schemes and unjustified sole source awards
• Imprest fund and petty cash abuse
• False claims and statements
• Cost mischarging and co-mingling of contracts
• How to prevent procurement fraud
• How to develop and implement a fraud and ethics policy
• Establishing a hotline

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