Financial fraud and crime are also on the rise.

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President Hollande also announced that he was creating a new agency to fight financial fraud, and appointing a special prosecutor to deal with financial crime.

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Whistleblowers are reporting that accounting and disclosure fraud is still occurring and probably happening more than any other financial crime.

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That's because the coalition government's programme for government contains a commitment to create "a single agency to take on the work of tackling serious economic crime done by the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Services Authority and the Office of Fair Trading".

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