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Fraud Intelligence

Private costs, public gains – the reality of SFO policy

Self reporting and civil recovery are appealingly pragmatic elements of the new Serious Fraud Office approach but they leave individual suspects more exposed, warns Neill Blundell of Eversheds.
Online Published Date:  21 December 2009

SFO charges first executive with overseas corruption

Robert Dougall, former vice-president of DePuy International, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), been charged has with conspiracy to corrupt in the first criminal prosecution of an executive for overseas corruption brought by the..
Online Published Date:  21 December 2009

Downside up

Timon Molloy, Editor
Online Published Date:  21 December 2009

Corporate identity theft: a forged signature may bind the company

It is trite law that contracts made by an agent within the scope of his actual or ostensible authority are binding on the principal, so that the principal’s liability on them is primary and personal. After the case of Alan Lovett [1], it seems that the same principle will apply to contracts in which the agent has forged the signature of his principal. Andrew Keltie and Charles Thomson of Baker & McKenzie analyse this case of ‘corporate identity theft’.
Online Published Date:  21 December 2009

Keep the red flags flying

Internal threats from rogue employees are pernicious but tried and tested alert mechanisms offer effective defence as Les Dobie of Grant Thornton describes.
Online Published Date:  21 December 2009

An AMECable arrangement

Jeremy Summers, Partner, Russell Jones & Walker (+44 (0) 20 7657 1786, J.Summers@rjw.co.uk, www.rjw.co.uk) © Jeremy Summers December 2009.
Online Published Date:  21 December 2009

US surge

Bill Waite is Group Chief Executive Officer, The Risk Advisory Group (+44 (0) 20 7578 0000, Bill.Waite@riskadvisory.net)
Online Published Date:  21 December 2009

Pulling it all together – systems, rules and case management

A large organisation is likely to run multiple fraud detection tools; the problem lies less in generating alerts, although sifting the genuine from false positives is a challenge, than in how to read across the diverse outputs. Business process..
Online Published Date:  21 December 2009

Too good to be true?

Andrew Watt is Managing Director, Tax Disputes & Investigations, Alvarez & Marsal Taxand UK, LLP (+ 44 (0) 20 7715 5200, awatt@alvarezandmarsal.com)
Online Published Date:  21 December 2009

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