White collar crime summit on cards

Summit for Africa’ on November 3 and 4.
It will be held in the resort town of Victoria Falls as it steps up the fight against fraud and allied vices.
According to Proctor and Associates senior partner Mr Proctor Nyemba similar initiatives only tend to be common in West Africa.

“This first-of-its-kind summit will proffer expert advice and techniques for protecting organisations against bribery, kickbacks, conflict of interest, financial reporting fraud, billing schemes and other forms of corruption.
“It will also have an especial focus on cyber-fraud in the Eastern and Southern Africa region,” said Mr Nyemba.
An earlier research note by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners reveals that corruption constitutes up to 50 percent of Africa’s fraud cases, which is probably reflective of growth in new modes of fraud on the continent, especially those relating to cyber-crime.

The keynote speaker at the summit will be international fraud expert Mr Peter Goldman.
Peter Goldman is the president of White Collar Crime 101 LLC, the publisher of White Collar Crime Fighter, a widely read monthly newsletter for internal auditors, controllers, corporate counsel, financial operations managers and fraud investigators.

He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the ACFE and a regular columnist in the ACFE’S newsletter, The Fraud Examiner.
He is also the author of Fraud in the Markets: Why it happens and how to fight it, and four other publications.

Mr Goldman has conducted numerous onsite fraud detection and prevention workshops for internal auditors, attorneys, human resources executives and compliance officers at Fortune500 companies and large not-for-profit organisations.

Other speakers expected at the summit include VOSCON Incorporated managing director Mr Danny Myburgh, ACFE Uganda Charter president Mr Mugusa Mutsapha, World Vision regional audit head Mr Joshiraj Paul and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Business Council secretary-general Mr Trust Chikohora.

Mr Nyemba said there are liking forward to participation by the following: Government officials, forensic auditors, insurance executives, risk managers, financial controllers, fraud risk managers, investigators, lawyers, loss control managers and other players that directly and indirectly deal with instances of fraud within organisations.