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With firing of US Fed's Cook, Kavanaugh opines on what may come around
“What goes around comes around,” US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh warned the government in its litigation defending the firing of Federal Reserve Governor L... (more story)
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Trump’s case against Cook may chill his Supreme Court hot streak
President Donald Trump may have squandered his momentum in removing Democrats at independent agencies by taking on the independence of the US Federal Reserve, thoug... (more story)
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US Supreme Court enables dismissal of charges in soccer-linked corruption case
The US Supreme Court on Monday remanded a corruption case against a former 21st Century Fox executive and a sports marketing company so the government can dismiss t... (more story)
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Saxo Bank has been fined the equivalent of $49 million by Denmark’s financial supervisor for breaching the country’s money laundering regulations. The bank pointed to improvements since a May 2023 inspection o... (more story)
A UK court has ordered Seng Hok Ling — a Malaysian man who helped the “Crypto Queen” Zhimin Qian to launder the proceeds of a huge investment fraud — to pay back more than £5 million, following his jailing last year.
An investigation into collapsed UK funeral-plan provider Safe Hands Plans and its parent company saw two men charged with fraud offenses on Thursday. Richard Wells and Neil Debenham will appear at a London cou... (more story)
A US appeals court appeared skeptical of a former Standard Chartered executive’s claims that the government had lied to a lower court when seeking to dismiss his whistleblower lawsuit over alleged sanctions violations.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday asked a federal judge to authorize an alternate method of serving Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew in a civil bribery case. The pair know ab... (more story)
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday cast prosecutorial reform as part of a broader pledge to crack down on “privilege, cheating and unfairness” that he said corrode everyday life, while conceding... (more story)
Two units of construction company VolkerWessels should be fined €525,000 for paying bribes on a bridge building project in the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten, Dutch prosecutors said on Monday. Bribes for the... (more story)
Russel Gerrity, a consultant who worked on a Chariot Oil & Gas project, has been fined almost £310,000 for insider trading by the UK’s financial regulator. The experienced oil professional used inside informat... (more story)
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When former Pennsylvania coal sales executive Charles Hunter Hobson faces trial next month for alleged corruption, he intends to argue that his employer and his bosses “bought their way” out of criminal charges.
The surprise decision by Serious Fraud Office head Nick Ephgrave to announce his retirement less than halfway through his five-year term leaves the enforcer with some challenges to ensure it maintains a head o... (more story)
Richard Payne, a British businessman facing corruption charges in South Africa, was unable to argue that time delays in the case made his rare extradition unfair after a UK judge said he had become a “fugitive... (more story)
An assistant manager at a TD Bank store in Midtown Manhattan facilitated more than $90 million in transactions for a money laundering network in exchange for more than $11,000 in retail gift cards, according t... (more story)
France's Senate is due to consider a bill in the coming days which would give stronger legal protections to in-house lawyers. The country's regulators have warned that the legislation could make it harder for ... (more story)
With more than two years under his belt, UK fraud agency boss Nick Ephgrave could be forgiven for being quietly satisfied with his time so far at the helm of the Serious Fraud Office. But 2026 will see that ea... (more story)
A new UK roadmap for tackling corruption promises to tackle financial crime and dirty money flows, crack down on professional enablers, and speed up Serious Fraud Office investigations with AI. But only signs ... (more story)
On the February day that President Trump ordered a pause on enforcement of a key US anti-bribery law, companies previously targeted under that law whose stocks are publicly traded saw an average gain in market... (more story)