The traditional way to snare them is to hire an accountant to scrutinise accounts for anomalies.
"It's even more essential now".Lynn Turner, a former chief accountant at the SEC, is aghast at the ignorance of basic accounting principles in many companies.
"That inquiry – conducted by two former judges and a senior accountant – found that Jack Warner had committed fraud and misappropriated the funds – in other words he had stolen the money from Concacaf … We asked Concacaf to give our money back because it wasn't used for the purpose we intended, and were advised by Fifa to wait until the inquiries were complete".
The police were raiding our offices and had arrested the accountant.
They asked him why he kept talking like an accountant or an economist, always failing to see "the moral dimension".
With his round, almost anonymous face, he looks both bland and groomed, like an accountant about to take a vacation, except for the black baseball cap that says 'NYU Film'.
Herakles Galanakopoulos, an accountant who specialises in tax, said that the government had to have new ideas: "Why not resort to such measures," he said.
So, I wouldn't want an accountant from KPMG to sit on our board unless he was interested in the population we're serving.
He probably looked more like an accountant from Croydon, like everyone else in the bar, but I prefer the more romantic vision.
It's because you can't hire a sharp accountant to get you out of them, the way you can with income tax".
Even if things didn't work out, I thought, I could still become an accountant.
