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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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In a recently unsealed court document from the US, the judge quoted comedy show, Saturday Night Live, in support of his unequivocal...
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a new financial sanctions evasion reporting platform for regulated entities, in a bid...
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The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced a new “fraud squad” to recover money stolen from the state-backed Covid Bounce Back Loan...
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It has just been announced that in February of this year, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) fined an unidentified UK company circa £2.7 million...
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The House of Commons passed the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill (ECB) on Monday, after an extraordinarily speedy...
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Prompted by the crisis in Ukraine, the UK Government has announced that it will bring forward the Economic Crime Bill. It has also...
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The crisis at the Russia/Ukraine border continues to provoke reverberations for the global financial sanctions framework, with threats...
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David Gauke and Francis Bond discuss the potential financial sanctions options available to the UK Government in responding to the...
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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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Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has issued a call for a new register of foreign-owned properties in the UK, citing the fact that the...
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The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Magnitsky Sanctions (“APPG”), co-chaired by MPs Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Bryant, was formally...
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory on 30 October to highlight sanctions risks...
A FOIA submitted by the Global Investigations Review has revealed that the number of open investigations into sanctions breaches by the...