BC Auditor General Renews Calls for Better Fraud Risk Management in Public Bodies

Michael Pickup appears at the legislature in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Nov. 29, 2017. Pickup, now British Columbia's auditor general, says the province's public institutions are susceptible to fraud, but he can't release specifics about instances of theft and corruption reported to his office in a survey conducted this year. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

British Columbia auditor general Michael Pickup says the province’s public institutions are susceptible to fraud, but he can’t release specifics about the theft and corruption reported to his office in a survey conducted this year.

Pickup says the survey of 23 public bodies that manage more than 85 per cent of provincial assets showed more than half had been the victim of some form of fraud in the past year.