Coordinated disruption activity

Coordinate disruption activities across multiple programmes or agencies to strengthen processes for identifying serious and organised criminals.

This control targets both internal and external fraud risks.

Examples

Examples of this control include:

revoking funding approvals
deregistering businesses and individuals
conducting tax assessments
sharing information with other agencies to support due diligence processes
referring cases to the relevant law enforcement agency when evidence of criminal activity is detected or suspected.

Poor or no coordinated disruption activities can lead to:

criminals repeatedly exploiting programmes
criminals shifting focus and exploiting new programmes
criminals exploiting multiple programmes
organised criminal groups using sophisticated methods to systematically target government programmes
agencies overlooking complex, organised offending by focusing only on opportunistic fraud.

Methods to evaluate the effectiveness of this control include:

understanding the organisation’s capability to disrupt complex criminal fraud by consulting with analysts, investigators and other experts about the process
checking that disruption activities targeting a specific type of fraud have been implemented and completed in previous cases
retrieving and analysing data related to a specific fraud, e.g. the number and type of actions taken.

Other capability, prevention, detection and response controls that can enhance this control’s effectiveness:

Types of behaviour this control is designed to mitigate:

Explore a range of controls that can be put in place to reduce the risk of fraud happening in your organisation.