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‘Hacking’ is the act of identifying and exploiting weaknesses in a computer, smartphone, tablet or network system to gain unauthorised access to personal or organisational data. While some individuals engage in hacking lawfully to help protect confidential information and strengthen security, the term is generally associated with cybercrime and computer misuse, which amounts to a […]

Market manipulation is the deliberate attempt to create an artificial, false or misleading impression of the price of, or market for, a product, security or commodity. Various regulatory bodies, principally the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) enforce rules and regulations imposed by a variety of statutes, such as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the […]

Bribery is a criminal offence under the Bribery Act 2010 (the ‘Act’), and allegations of bribery and corruption can have serious consequences for individuals and businesses. The Act applies to both the public and private sectors in the UK and creates four key bribery offences. The Act introduces strict liability for those commercial organisations whose […]

KANGS has assisted a senior National Health Service (NHS) Consultant in successfully defending fraud allegations. The investigators alleged that he had, fraudulently undertaken and received payment for private clinical work during periods when he was contracted to, and being paid by the NHS. Following the detailed preparation of our client’s defence by the team at […]

As part of its drive to reduce the ‘tax gap,’ being the difference between the amount of tax HMRC collects and the amount it estimates is actually owed, HMRC operates a powerful data networking and analytical system known as HMRC Connect. The system enables HMRC to identify businesses or individuals that may not have paid […]

KANGS has successfully assisted our client, a company director specialising in the provision of IT services, defeat allegations that he had committed fraud by abusing his position, with the assistance of a contact within the police service, when seeking the award of police IT contracts. The team at KANGS guided our client through a complex […]