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Switzerland must act on bribery, says OECD working group
By Sara Lewis
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01 August 2022
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August/September 2022 - 10 June 2022
Grim reading – two reports on the Serious Fraud Office
Aziz Rahman (+44 (0)203 911 9339, aziz.rahman@rahmanravelli.co.uk)is senior partner at Rahman Ravelli.
Online Published Date:
01 August 2022
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August/September 2022 - 10 June 2022
NFT market is awash with wash trading
Ben Rees (ben.rees@kellerlenkner.co.uk; 0208 057 7480) istechnical director and Mark Kenkre (mark.kenkre@kellerlenkner.co.uk;0208 057 7480) partner within the Investment Fraud and Mis-selling group atKeller Lenkner UK (www.kellerlenkner.co.uk).
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01 August 2022
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August/September 2022 - 10 June 2022
Unaoil case review finds dysfunctional Serious Fraud Office
A report [1] into culture and practice at the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), commissioned in the wake of the quashed conviction for bribery of Ziad Akle, a former energy services consultancy manager, has exposed “fundamental failures” in how the..
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01 August 2022
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August/September 2022 - 10 June 2022
Characterful – integrity screening
Technical competence, even brilliance, trumped by dishonesty can prove an expensive, at worst, for an organisation, terminal, hiring error. Poorna Rodrigo finds, though, that advances in recruitment practice, from refinements in psychometric testing..
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01 August 2022
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August/September 2022 - 10 June 2022
Single economic crime force is no panacea, say experts
Esther Martin (esther.martin@informa.com), Assistant Editor
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01 August 2022
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August/September 2022 - 10 June 2022
SEC charges 11 in US$300m crypto pyramid scheme
By Sara Lewis
Online Published Date:
05 August 2022
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October/November 2022 - 05 August 2022
PwC fined UK£1.75m for audit failings over BT Italy fraud
The British accountancy regulator, the Financial Reporting Council, has fined PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) UK£1.75 million (US$2.11 million) and PwC partner Richard Hughes UK£42,000 (US$50,681) for failings in auditing UK£513 million (US$619 million) in adjustments that telecoms giant BT made in its 2017 accounts to allow for a massive fraud discovered in Italy in July 2016.
Online Published Date:
09 August 2022
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October/November 2022 - 05 August 2022
Distrust, bias and incompetence: how two UK Serious Fraud Office investigations went badly wrong
The highly anticipated reports into Serious Fraud Office (SFO) failings in its Unaoil and Serco investigations, by Sir David Calvert-Smith [1] and Brian Altman QC [2], respectively, were published on 21 July [2022]. As Lisa Osofsky, Director of the SFO, observed, they make for “a sobering read”. Shula de Jersey and Matt Davies of BCL Solicitors examine the findings.
Online Published Date:
22 August 2022
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October/November 2022 - 05 August 2022
Cryptocurrency fraud falls with price drops, says new report
Rates of cryptocurrency fraud are running at 65% less than a year ago, according to a new reportfrom blockchain data platform Chainalysis.
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26 August 2022
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October/November 2022 - 05 August 2022
Cryptocurrency fraud falls with price drops, says new report
Rates of cryptocurrency fraud are running at 65% less than a year ago, according to a new reportfrom blockchain data platform Chainalysis.
Online Published Date:
26 August 2022
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October/November 2022 - 05 August 2022