yeah did some more reading...apparently pretty common
Financial crime common in Canadian universities - The Globe and Mail
Quote:
Annual surveys of 20-plus university auditors reveal that their institutions quietly endure some level of financial crime year after year – five- and six-figure sums routinely go missing, much of it unrecoverable. Yet they are more reluctant than companies in other industries to install and enforce safeguards, even in a time of budget crunches, when spending is being watched especially closely.
Last month, police charged a University of Waterloo copy centre supervisor with fraud totalling $955,000 little more than a month after similar charges were brought against two York University employees accused of taking more than $1.2-million over nearly three years. Studies show most frauds at universities total between $10,000 and $50,000, but seven-figure thefts are hardly a rarity: A quarter of all Canada’s occupational frauds are worth at least $1-million.
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even if it's over a few years where's the papertrail for 7-figures
Audit finds VCH/UBC research funds at high risk for fraud - News - Vancouver Courier
it's just so disheartening to see healthcare professionals abusing people's/taxpayers charity for research/projects of alzheimer's etc going into their own personal account