Record revealed
Hoax letter signed by ‘Jack the Ripper’
This is one of hundreds of letters in police files claiming to have been written by the infamous Whitechapel Murderer – otherwise known as 'Jack the Ripper'.
Series
Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce: Finance and Audit Division, Audit Branch:...
Catalogue reference: HY 6
What's it about?
HY 6
This series contains records of precedent cases of investigations into frauds against the schemes operated by the Board, and significant fraud cases.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HY 6
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Title (The name of the record)
- Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce: Finance and Audit Division, Audit Branch: Registered Files, Financial Investigations (INVEST Series)
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of precedent cases of investigations into frauds against the schemes operated by the Board, and significant fraud cases.
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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INVEST Series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce, Finance and Audit Division, Audit Branch,, 1977-1977
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Records not yet transferred
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Intervention Board, Secretariat
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce became an Executive Agency, the Intervention Board, in 1990, and took over the records of its predecessor.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1977
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series will accrue at intervals, though only small numbers of files are likely to be selected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Records selected by the Intervention Board under PRO supervision, under section 2.2.1.2 dealing with intervention support under the Common Agricultural Policy for the UK's agricultural industry.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Audit Branch of the Finance and Audit Division of the Intervention Board was responsible for the auditing of the financial transactions of the Board and investigating suspected frauds, as well as for liaison with audit branches in the agricultural departments and HM Customs and Excise. Before 1977 these functions had been carried out by the Audit Branch of the Finance and Establishment Division, but no files have been selected for permanent preservation from that period.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15572/
Catalogue hierarchy
91 records
Within the department: HY
Records of the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce, and its successor agencies
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Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce: Finance and Audit Division, Audit Branch: Registered Files, Financial Investigations (INVEST Series)
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