Fraud 2012

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Across
  1. 2. Expertise inflated into infallibility — the belief that mastery grants immunity and victims won’t fight back.
  2. 4. Freedom unbound by accountability — independence mistaken for immunity.
  3. 7. The posture of seasoned insiders who weaponise expertise and borrowed authority — convinced that rules constrain others, not them.
  4. 11. Professional craft turned inward: impersonation, lies and staged legitimacy to make exploitation look like process.
  5. 13. Living two lives at once — public servant by day, covert exploiter by night.
  6. 14. The quiet enabling that happens when experience earns deference, assumptions replace checks, and no one asks the awkward questions.
  7. 15. Unshared access and lone-operator workflows that let a single actor run the table — and close the blinds.
Down
  1. 1. The system closing its hands — dismissals, convictions and sentences as public reckoning for private deceit.
  2. 3. The profession’s mirror — hard lessons, verified trust and skepticism as muscle even for experts.
  3. 5. Integrity as presentation — ethics performed for show while concealment works behind the scenes.
  4. 6. When the system’s defender becomes its intruder — exploiting insider knowledge and access to commit the very crimes they investigate.
  5. 8. The operational twin of deceit — mixers, exchanges and lies built to bury trails until victims speak.
  6. 9. Choices stripped of moral reference — precision without principle — where victims become mere instruments.
  7. 10. The self-made prison of concealment — each cover-up demands another step, until the scheme traps its maker.
  8. 12. The control failure that begins with confidence and ends with blindness — ‘he’s the expert’ becomes the reason no one checks.