Crime and fraud prevention for businesses in international trade
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Crime and fraud issues in international trade: theft of goods, money laundering, cyber crime, employee fraud, infringement of intellectual property.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 11
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Crime and fraud issues in international trade: theft of goods, money laundering, cyber crime, employee fraud, infringement of intellectual property. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Introduction
- Understand common types of fraud in international trade
- Money laundering and terrorist financing
- VAT fraud
- Protect your business identity against fraud
- IT attacks
- Taking action to prevent fraud
- How to safeguard your IT against fraud
- Protect your computers physically
- Protect your computers online
- Vetting business partners
- How to vet a company
- Agree secure methods of payment
- Install best-practice safety procedures against business crime
- Safeguard against crime in your supply chain
- Vet staff
Source and licence
HM Revenue & Customs
AttributionHM Revenue & Customs, ‘Crime and fraud prevention for businesses in international trade’ (updated 5 January 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026