New Taxpayer Protection Taskforce to investigate furlough fraud
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In the Budget 2021 presented in March, the Chancellor announced the establishment of a taskforce as part of the…
Click here and here to catch up on our previous furlough fraud coverage.
In the Budget 2021 presented in March, the Chancellor announced the establishment of a taskforce as part of the…
The Financial Services Bill
On 21 October 2020, the Financial Services Bill (the “Bill”) was introduced in the House of Commons. Over one year later, the Bill continues to be debated, this…
On 12 July 2019, Her Majesty’s Treasury (“HM Treasury”) published its new Economic Crime Plan 2019-2022 (“ECP”) revealing its priorities for the next three years for fighting economic crime…
SFO suffers further blow as Sarclad Ltd DPA revealed
On 16 July 2019, Michael Sorby, Adrian Leek, and David Justice, three former executives of Sarclad Ltd (“Sarclad”), were acquitted of…
The Strategy
Whilst the Government claims that the previous Serious and Organised Crime Strategy 2013 had a significant impact upon serious and organised crime in the UK, the latest Serious and…
Wealth Unexplained: High Court uphold the historic first “Unexplained Wealth Order” as NCA indicate there are many more with some explaining to do
In a clear victory for the National…
Criminal Finances Act 2017 Comes into Force
The Criminal Finances Act 2017 came into force on 30 September, introducing various new instruments into the authority’s anti-corruption toolkit. Two…
https://www.sfo.gov.uk/download/general-principles-to-compensate-overseas-victims-including-affected-states-in-bribery-corruption-and-economic-crime-cases/
Following the publication of the…
Four senior ex-Barclays executives, and Barclays plc, have been charged with a number of fraud offences after the SFO’s five-year investigation into the raising of billions of pounds from Qatar…
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Jonathan Mathew, Jay Merchant and Alex Pabon, three former traders of Barclays Bank plc, were found guilty on Monday, of conspiracy to defraud in connection with an investigation into manipulation of…
A number of brokers on trial for LIBOR manipulation were cleared of all charges last week. Darrell Read, Danny Wilkinson and Colin Goodman of ICAP, Terry Farr and Jim Gilmour of RP Martin and Noel…
More than one in four UK employees (approximately 9.1 million people) are currently furloughed under the Gover...
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The Code for Crown Prosecutors (“Code”) sets out the general principles crown prosecutors should follow when d...
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Introduction On 10 January 2020 the EU’s Fifth Money Laundering Directive (EU) 2018/843 (“5MLD”) implemente...
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