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Recent findings by the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that long-running bid-rigging and overbilling in IT support contracts for U.S. Air Force bases in the Pacific region led to at least $37 million in excess costs . What makes this case particularly significant is that it was not merely a matter of vendors coordinating prices. It was a multi-layered procurement fraud scheme in which the contract award process was manipulated in advance, and inflated profits were later

“Are there any compliance issues here?” One of the three major telecommunications companies in Japan, KDDI, began investigating after Makoto Takahashi—then President and now Chairman—found the sudden surge in revenue unusual and raised compliance concerns. The investigation ultimately revealed that revenue at KDDI subsidiaries had been overstated by JPY 246.1 billion (approximately KRW 2.29 trillion), and that 99.7% of the total consisted of fictitious transactions structured

Fraud and embezzlement often begin in surprisingly simple processes. A recently reported embezzlement case involving manipulated material orders at a large company in Gwangju illustrates the kinds of risks that can arise when purchasing, inventory, and inspection processes are not properly segregated, or when data-driven monitoring is weak. According to media reports, the employee responsible for material ordering allegedly exploited a structure in which the same person had b