Approximately 15 percent of fraud perpetrators had been employed in the operations department in the reported cases in 2020 and 2021. This makes the operations department the department with the highest number of employees that committed occupational fraud.
Distribution of perpetrators of fraud cases worldwide in 2020 and 2021, by department of perpetrator
Departments with fewer than 10 cases were omitted
Respondents were asked about the single largest occupational fraud case they had investigated between January 2020 and September 2021.
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