On 13 June 2019, at the Court of Audit an initiative to cooperate in the International Fraud Awareness Week was signed. The signatories of the document who wish to start discussions about issues of fraud and economic crime are: Deloitte Slovenia, Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Permanent Arbitrage at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Slovenian Business Club, Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, Court of Audit, Slovenian Sovereign Holding, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, Bank Association of Slovenia and Slovenian Directors’ Association.
By this formal act, the participating institutions confirmed their intention to join forces in organising International Fraud Awareness Week in November 2019 in Slovenia and thereby ensure that this becomes annual event. The common objective of all is to exchange best practice and to encourage senior managers and employees in public and private sector, students and other interested stakeholders to play a proactive role in reducing the impacts of fraud, corruption and other forms of economic crime in our environment by respecting powers of each participating institution.
The President of the Court of Audit, Tomaž Vesel, stressed in his press release that most of our strength should be focused on processing of fraud disclosures that should end by negative consequences for all that were involved. He also pointed out that every institution participating shall do its best to undertake activities in the field of fraud prevention and inform the public thereof. The intention of the Court of Audit is to review public procurement procedures.
International Fraud Awareness Week is well known event providing professionals and organisations an opportunity to cooperate and highlight far-reaching negative impacts of fraud and how important fraud prevention is to society as a whole. International Fraud Awareness Week was established by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) in 2000 to raise awareness about fraud. The week-long campaign encourages officials, business leaders, employees and the public to take proactive steps to minimize the impact of fraud by promoting anti-fraud awareness and education about combating fraud.
