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The new economic crime levy – is it enough?
n the government’s 2020 budget on 12 th March, the Chancellor announced that the government would consult in the spring about introducing an ‘economic crime levy’ on those firms…
Civil society groups’ letter to the Director of the SFO on implications of the Airbus Deferred Prosecution Agreement
At the end of January 2020, Airbus was given a Deferred Prosecution Agreement in the UK as part of...
Iraqi case in UK courts brings bribery in the oil industry to the surface
UK courts started hearing the first ever criminal trial in the UK of employees of an intermediary company that is charged with paying bribes on behalf of large Western oil companies..
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Barclays extended a loan to a pair of Caribbean legal entities used by the grandson of Kazakhstan’s former ruler to hide his ownership of a £39 million Hampstead mansion -- that is now the target of an unexplained wealth order https://twitter.com/KoosCouvee/status/1238366881033183233
@annierobertsn @UKSFO Sounds quite modest for a trial on that scale. That won’t include the vast sums spent by the banks’ lawyers and financed by shareholders trawling through the emails and audio before handing them over to the SFO and other regulators.
@EndCorruptionUK @UKSFO Great minds.....