# Fraud by charities "worth millions"?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/07/23/fraud-charities-quotworth-millionsquot/
- Published: 2000-07-23T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Government spending watchdog warns of possible largescale fraud.
The Independent
reports that the UK government’s spending watchdog body has warned that “failure
to grant full access to the accounts of private and voluntary bodies that spend 
billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money every year leaves the door open to fraud.”

Read Fraud by charities worth millions is going undetected by Fran Abrams at the
Independent.

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