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Last Thursday, we published an article highlighting some recent, more unusual, money laundering schemes. We encouraged organisations to...
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In May 2023, FTSE 100 company Entain Plc (Entain) announced that it anticipated receiving a “substantial” financial penalty following an...
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The government tabled a new failure to prevent (FTP) fraud offence as part of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (ECCT...
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The UK is set to implement a new statutory instrument (SI) to align the scope of the UK’s criminal insider dealing regime with the...
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On 11 April 2023, the government finally tabled legislation introducing a much-anticipated new failure to prevent (FTP) fraud offence, as...
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Recognising the increasing threat to the UK’s national security and prosperity, on 30 March, HM Treasury and the Home Office published...
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In a significant judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has struck down provisions of European Union law that give...
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The introduction of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the Bill) on 22 September 2022 was met with support by many legal...
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On 3 August, the UK Government announced the launch of the Public Sector Fraud Authority (the Authority), a new body tasked with tackling...
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On Wednesday 22 June, the director of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (“OFSI”), Giles Thomson, speaking to the House of...
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Following the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022’s expedited passage through Parliament in March 2022, the Office of...
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The UK’s Law Commission has published its options paper for reform of corporate criminal liability. This much-anticipated report sets out...
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A House of Commons briefing paper, published on 22 February 2022, has criticised the use of Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs). The paper...
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On Thursday 10 February, the House of Commons Library published a briefing paper on economic crime in the UK, which summarises recent...
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We recently commented on a fortnight of fast-paced developments in the economic crime space. As we observed, it appears that (despite...
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There have been so many developments in the realm of “economic crime” in the last two weeks that it has been hard to keep up.To summarise...