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Unfortunately there isn't a neat mechanism like short-selling.

Income tax departments in my country give a small reward (3-5% of the amount in question) if you report tax fraud.

Maybe we could have something like that, where the vigilance department receives a small amount of money paid off from the penalty imposed on the researcher with bad/fraudulent research.

See, that’s weird to me? Wouldn’t the best reward be more like 99 or 100%? The gov’t’s already out the money; the incentive is to prevent tax fraud.

The tax department is, in fact, not "out of money" in that sense, and tries to recover the money first with some penalties added.

They're incredibly empowered to conduct raids and seize property and other belongings, if it comes down to that and the sum involved is large enough.

>They're incredibly empowered to conduct raids and seize property and other belongings, if it comes down to that and the sum involved is large enough.

But only if that sum involved is not large enough for the owner to afford proper defense lawyers

Denouncing civil disobedience is typical method for sustain totalitarian regime. Where are you from?

>An award worth between 15 and 30 percent of the total proceeds that IRS collects could be paid, if the IRS moves ahead based on the information provided

https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/whistleblower-office-at-a-glan...

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