UK MPs Call for Special Economic Crime Courts to Deal With ‘Epidemic of Fraud’

UK MPs Call for Special Economic Crime Courts to Deal With ‘Epidemic of Fraud’
Wads of Bank of England banknotes are stacked in piles, at the Money Service Austria company's headquarters in Vienna, on Nov. 16, 2017. Leonhard Foeger/Reuters
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A committee of MPs has urged the British government to set up a system of economic crime courts to tackle an “epidemic of fraud” sweeping the country.

The Justice Committee said only one out of 700 fraud cases were currently prosecuted, with tens of thousands of online scammers getting away with their crimes.

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