{"id":821212,"date":"2026-03-12T17:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/821212\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:53:22","slug":"latest-fraud-now-accounts-for-45-of-crime-in-england-as-cases-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/821212\/","title":{"rendered":"LATEST: Fraud now accounts for 45% of crime in England as cases surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>FRAUD now accounts for 45% of all crime in England and Wales amid a surge in financial crime, new research has found.<\/p>\n<p>A new study from Cifas, a not-for-profit fraud prevention service, found that organisations reported more than 444,000 fraud cases to the National Fraud Database (NFD) in 2025. This is the highest annual total on record and marked a 6% increase on 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/phone-tablet-desktop.png\" alt=\"AML Intelligence\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"1034874810\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><br \/>\nSubscribe now to have unlimited access<\/p>\n<p class=\"amlpmp-content-message__description\">With our membership subscription, you will have unlimited access to the AML Intelligence site, updated daily with the latest analysis, opinion, and breaking news across the sector, newsletter delivered twice per week, access to our Global Bank Fines &amp; Penalties database, free access to Boardroom Series and more!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/membership-account\/membership-levels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View subscription options<\/a><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If you have an account, log in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent FRAUD now accounts for 45% of all crime in England and Wales amid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,160740,393,349,4884,68879,16,15],"class_list":["post-821212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","tag-britain","tag-cifas","tag-england","tag-fraud","tag-great-britain","tag-nca","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116217486342966616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}