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US appeals court questions suggest CFPB to be left in tatters
US appeals court judges fired skeptical questions at the union lawyer challenging the Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bu... (more story)
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New UK plea deal guidance won’t change much but gives companies more certainty
New guidance to help UK companies self-report white-collar crime to escape prosecution won't lead to any sudden flood of confessions to the Serious Fraud Office, bu... (more story)
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Speed of reporting is decisive in UK SFO guidance on avoiding prosecution
The speed with which a company self-reports criminal wrongdoing to the UK’s Serious Fraud Office has emerged as the decisive factor, in guidance published today on ... (more story)
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United Insurance Brokers Limited was today given a trial date of June 2027 over a charge brought by the UK’s fraud agency that it failed to prevent bribery in Ecuador. The prosecutor alleges that millions of d... (more story)
Former hedge fund analyst Redinel Korfuzi did not agree to share inside information that led to criminal trading activities, a UK jury has been told today. "When you scratch the surface … you will see that the... (more story)
A top government lawyer has thrown her weight behind Serious Fraud Office attempts to pay whistleblowers to help crack open complex cases. The head of the SFO Nick Ephgrave has been calling for the agency to b... (more story)
An Adani Group entity has denied engaging in sanctions evasion following a media report that US investigators have opened a new front in their probe of the Indian conglomerate’s business activities. In a filin... (more story)
Rockfire Investment Finance is under investigation by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office over allegedly fraudulent solar farm bonds it sold to a UK council. The SFO said it had issued a series of notices compelling... (more story)
Forensic accountants investigating a massive fraud at NMC Health found internal “cheat sheets” in the company’s systems setting out its true financial position and detailing how “significant payments” were mad... (more story)
The UK’s financial markets watchdog has announced it will start disclosing its investigations into unregulated firms, or suspected unauthorized activity, as part of three key revisions to the information it pr... (more story)
Police in Vietnam’s northern province of Thai Binh have started legal proceedings into a criminal case that allegedly used artificial intelligence to launder money. In what is thought to be a first for Vietnam... (more story)
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The corporate culture at Goldman Sachs cast a shadow over today’s sentencing of former partner Tim Leissner over his involvement in a fraud scheme at the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB. Leissner has blam... (more story)
US appeals court judges fired skeptical questions at the union lawyer challenging the Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – suggesting that the beleaguered agency... (more story)
The US will continue to prioritize enforcement of a law prohibiting bribery of foreign officials to win business, despite a pause ordered earlier this year by President Donald Trump, according to a Justice Department memo.
UK government plans to consolidate sanctions lists and speed up enforcement of civil-law breaches will be welcomed as aims, but the new plan fails to grasp the nettle of patchy enforcement. The latest look at ... (more story)
The UK's white-collar crime agency celebrated a milestone in January when it won a judge's backing for its first dirty-cash order against Claire Schools, the former wife of Axiom Legal Financing Fund fraudster... (more story)
The UK’s sanctions enforcer took to its blog today to get across the message of how seriously it takes non-compliance with information requests. A recent penalty that OFSI imposed on Svarog Shipping & Trading ... (more story)
Gambling operator Entain has moved to put itself on a firmer footing, with the recent appointment of Stella David as its head. Near the top of her to-do list is likely to be how to handle civil action taken ag... (more story)
When Huione Group was contacted last year by an Australian media outlet about allegations that it was being used to launder money for the online scam industry, the Cambodian financial conglomerate acknowledged... (more story)