What is Public Sector Fraud?
Public Sector fraud is where criminals seek to exploit Government grant and compensation schemes for their personal gain.
This type of fraud affects all taxpayers by stealing public money. The criminals will produce fake documents and applications to deliberately deceive and exploit certain schemes which are in place to provide help to genuine applicants.
Examples of Public Sector fraud are:
- abuse of the right-to-buy system for former council homes
- Legal aid fraud
- Grant for Business Investment (GBI) fraud
