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Revealed: Crime gangs targeting Scots councils

Criminal gangs are using some of Britain’s biggest firms in a multi-million-pound bid to defraud Scottish councils, The Herald can reveal.

Organised crime groups have stolen at least £600,000 from local authorities and have targeted millions more using fake letters from major contrac- tors including Mitie, Sodexo and Barr Construction.