The UK Supreme Court has dismissed the final appeal made against the first ever Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) obtained by the National...
On 7 October, the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced that for the first time it has successfully used an Unexplained Wealth Order...
On Wednesday the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that it had used its first listed asset order (LAO) to seize £500,000 of jewellery,...
The UK is set to go ahead with a £100m investment in improving anti-money laundering systems, funded by a “levy” on financial...
The National Crime Agency’s (NCA) use of unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) has faced recent high profile defeats in both the High Court...
In April this year, we commented on the first setback by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in their use of unexplained wealth orders...
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has suffered its first major setback in the use of Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs), as its attempt to...
Hot off the heels of their success in the Court of Appeal, upholding the first unexplained wealth order (UWO) obtained in the UK, it is...
HMRC has released an update on its investigations of the relatively new corporate criminal offence (CCO) of failure to prevent the...
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal against the first Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) issued in the UK, potentially paving the...
The wife of the former chairman of the international bank of Azerbaijan has been in the Court of Appeal challenging the unexplained...
On 8 November 2019 the National Crime Agency (NCA) successfully defended its first contested application for Account Forfeiture Orders...
The UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) has published its Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Annual Report for 2019. This report...
On Thursday 26 September the UK Court ruled that the subject of the first set of unexplained wealth orders (UWO) in the UK, the wife of...
The National Crime Agency (NCA) announced on 14 August 2019 that it has obtained account freezing orders (AFOs) over eight bank accounts...
On 24 July 2019 the National Crime Agency (NCA) obtained its fourth unexplained wealth order (UWO), which it announced on 31 July 2019....