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A senior garda with a background in counter-terrorism and fraud investigation has been appointed to one of the top law enforcement positions in the world. Detective Inspector Rory Corcoran has been announced as Assistant Director of Interpol’s Organised and Emerging Crime directorate (OEC), at its headquarters in Lyon, France, where he has been seconded from An Garda Síochána for the past two and a half years. The Irishman secured the role after a global recruitment competition, beating off candidates from several of Interpol’s 194 member states, which is seen as a major endorsement of ...

The UK’s rapid vaccine rollout is being protected from the threat of serious organised crime and corruption by the structure and principles of the NHS, senior police officers say. The National Crime Agency, which is monitoring any attempt by organised syndicates to profiteer from the covid vaccine programme, said the centralised systems of the NHS helped safeguard it from attempts to infiltrate its supply chain. But it was the NHS’s principle of...

Centralised NHS system is ‘key to stopping vaccine fraud’, reveals National Crime Agency

Scammers prey on desperate in Covid-plagued Mexico AFP 1/29/2021 AFP © RODRIGO ARANGUA Oxygen tanks have become a precious commodity in Mexico as coronavirus cases soar, providing opportunities for fraudsters Fake vaccines, dubious coronavirus tests, non-existent oxygen tanks -- scammers are preying on desperate Mexican coronavirus patients and their relatives as the pandemic stretches the country's health system to the limit. © JOEL SAGET The vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is among those purportedly being offered for sale online After he...