Financial Crime
“I always shy away from trying to put a simplistic number on it – but it’s billions and billions and billions of pounds,” explains David Artingstall, “You see figures quoted in the tens of billions or hundreds of billions, but really they’re meaningless – there’s a sense that you have to ratchet up the numbers to make the problem look significant. But it’s clear that it’s a huge problem and it’s clear we don’t have enough resources allocated to tackle it from an enforcement point of view.”