Unentitled – a global look at false claims for Covid-19 support

Exchequers around the world went into overdrive in the face of potential mass unemployment and social unrest as Covid-19 took hold in early 2020. The public funding programmes rushed out to help struggling businesses and households, dispensing as they did with many of the usual checks, were a honeypot that fraudsters would never refuse. Sara Lewis, Keith Nuthall, Julian Ryall, Stephenie Overman and Raghavendra Verma report on the experience of government aid scheme abuse internationally.