HMRC is looking at furlough fraud and company directors may be jointly...

More than one in four UK employees (approximately 9.1 million people) are currently furloughed under the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“Scheme”), at a cost of almost £20.8bn….

Is your Compliance Programme effective in practice?

On Monday, 1 June 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), published an updated version of their guidance on Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs (“DOJ Guidance”) which reflects the…

The conduct of ongoing criminal investigations during the Coronavirus...

The Coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic poses an unprecedented challenge for the criminal justice system in England and Wales. In particular, COVID-19 is having a noticeable impact on UK enforcement…

Standard Chartered fined £20.5m for breach of EU sanctions against Russia

Corporate Crime analysis: Lucia Cabello, Solicitor at Fulcrum, considers the decision of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (“OFSI”) to fine the UK bank Standard Chartered a total of…

Increased FCA scrutiny placed on Authorised Corporate Directors

The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has launched a review of the role of authorised corporate directors (“ACDs”) after widespread scrutiny of the service providers following the Woodford…

Cryptoassets: The Property of the Future

Introduction

A month on from the implementation of the European Union’s Fifth Money Laundering Directive (EU) 2018/843) (“5MLD”)[1] which placed cryptoassets under the supervision of the…

Update: match fixing rearing its ugly head again

Introduction:

It is nearly ten years since the match fixing scandal involving Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir stunned the cricket world.[1] It therefore comes with great sadness to…

Court approves €1bn DPA in Airbus bribery case (SFO v Airbus SE)

Corporate Crime analysis: Southwark Crown Court has approved a deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”) requiring the respondent aircraft manufacturer (“Airbus SE”) to pay a total financial sanction of…

Queering the pitch and turning the ‘beautiful game’ ugly – two...

Introduction

Last Friday’s sentencing hearing for two agents and a coach at Southwark Crown Court marked the conclusion of a case which must have been painful viewing for all those engaged with…

SFO guidance on evaluating a compliance programme: it is never too late to...

Further to the much-anticipated Corporation Co-Operation guidance published by the SFO last summer, on 17 January 2020, the SFO published a new chapter of its Operational Handbook entitled…

5MLD, what are the key changes?

Introduction

On 10 January 2020 the EU’s Fifth Money Laundering Directive (EU) 2018/843 (“5MLD”) implemented by The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019…

Will the FCA decrypt Cryptoassets?

Will the FCA decrypt Cryptoassets?

From 10 January 2020, cryptoasset businesses that operate in the UK will be subject to supervision by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) in respect to…

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