Brand-Rex Limited, a Scottish company specialising in developing cabling solutions has become the first UK company to be penalised for contravention of section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010.
Brand-Rex…
The newly established Competition and Markets Authority [formed in April 2014 from the Office of Fair Trading and Competition Commission] yesterday lost a cartel case against two businessmen.
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HSBC has today been fined a record 40m Swiss francs (£27.8m) by the Geneva authorities for previous “organisational deficiencies” which allowed money laundering to take place in HSBC’s Swiss…
On 21 May 2015, three employees of Swift Technical Solutions Ltd (who supply specialist manpower to the global oil and gas industry) were found not guilty at Southwark Crown Court of corruption…
On Wednesday 17 May 2015, the US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, announced 47 counts of charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering against nine FIFA officials and five sports…
Barclays has been fined $2.38bn after pleading guilty to conspiring to manipulate the forex trading market. This is part of a record $5.7bn in fines handed out by US and UK regulators to Barclays,…
On 11 March 2015 Graham Marchment pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court and was sentenced to 2 and a half years imprisonment for his role in the award of contracts in a series of high-value…
Companies involved in bribery are at risk of being sued by their competitors, following the case of.Jalal Bezee Mejel Al-Gaood & Partner v Innospec Ltd [2014] EWHC 3147.
Innospec had…
Petrobras CEO, Maria das Graças Foster, was forced to step down on Wednesday after an investigation discovered 23bn reais ($8.9bn) of suspect payments, bribes and kickbacks to politicians.
Foster…
On 23 January 2015 the former head of the collapsed hedge fund Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund Ltd was sentenced to a total of 13 years in prison, having been found guilty of eight counts of fraud,…
On 19 January 2015, following a three month trial, Ulf Magnus Michael Peterson was found guilty by a jury of eight counts of fraud, forgery, false accounting and fraudulent trading. Mr Peterson was…
The UK is the first EU member state to implement the EU Directive on Extractive Industries, designed to achieve greater transparency of dealings between those who work in the extractive industries…
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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