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Of course the company knew about the fraud. The fact they outsourced the actual work to a third party just means they can claim plausible deniability.

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If they knew, they're guilty of fraud. If they didn't, they're guilty of incompetence.

Either way they should be judged/policed by their actions rather than their intent, because intent is too hard to prove or disprove.

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