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Proves company is involved in fraudulent activities (8)

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I believe the answer is:

confirms

'proves' is the definition.
(to prove is to confirm as true)

'company is involved in fraudulent activities' is the wordplay.
'company' becomes 'firm' (firm can mean a company or business).
'is involved in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fraudulent activities' becomes 'cons' (a con is a fraudulent operation).
'firm' going into 'cons' is 'CONFIRMS'.

(Other definitions for confirms that I've seen before include "Finalises or makes definite" , "Provides support for the truth of" , "Provides supporting evidence of the truth" , "Supports the truth of something" , "Corroborates" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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