Tagging the Dead – Incestuous Financial Relationships

“Tagging the dead” was a recent popular newspaper headline1. The story told how G4S – of Olympic Security fame – and Serco were invoicing for tagging 18,000 offenders a day, when only 15,000 were actually being tagged and monitored. Besides invoicing for the few that were actually dead, other fraudulent invoices included people who had moved abroad, been returned to prison, or had never left prison in the first place!! Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, called in the Serious Fraud Office to investigate one company, and subsequently said that both companies needed to have a period of “corporate renewal”. The…