Technology makes fraud harder to track

Increasingly sophisticated technology is making serious fraud harder to investigate, according to the Serious Fraud Office.

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In an interview with our sister title Computing, SFO assistant director Peter Kiernan, said remote networked technologies and storage intense laptops mean investigators have to search for more information sources and locations.

?Criminals aren?t necessarily getting any more sophisticated, but new technologies are adding an extra level of sophistication which wasn?t there two to three years ago,? he said.

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