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The Case of Moscow School Investigation

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This is a case study of an internal investigation report that illustrates many problematic aspects of the current status in fraud examinations today.

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Gottschalk, P. (2018). The Case of Moscow School Investigation. In: Investigating White-Collar Crime. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68916-6_8

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