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Ministers, police and prosecutors have created a 'permissive culture' for fraud, allowing criminals to fleece billions to help fund human trafficking and the drugs trade, a damning Lords report finds today.
Successive governments have failed to tackle the 'scourge' of what has become the country's most common crime, with more than 40 million UK adults targeted by swindlers in the first half of this year alone.
But despite the 'exponential growth' of the offence, criminals 'face little risk of being caught', the report says.
Successive governments have failed to tackle the 'scourge' of what has become the country's most common crime
Law enforcement agencies are 'chronically underfunded', with a 'paltry' 1 per cent of their resources focused on tackling economic crime.
The report said jail sentences for fraud should rise to up to 14 years, from the current ten, to reflect the 'immeasurable' emotional as well as financial cost to victims, which leaves many targets
