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                                                HMRC fraud unit claws back UK£5.4 billion in tax and fines
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    By Sara Lewis
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        05 December 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                            December/January 2019 - 04 October 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                Fraud policing in the UK – “the demand is immense”
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Esther Martin (esther.martin@informa.com),
Assistant Editor
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        05 December 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                            December/January 2019 - 04 October 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                Can you believe your eyes? Deepfakes and fraud
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Elizabeth
Metliss (+44 (0)20
3321 7472, elizabeth.metliss@mishcon.com) and Sofia Berggren (+44
(0)20 3321 6004, sofia.berggren@mishcon.com) are lawyers with Mishcon de Reya.
Elizabeth is an associate in the dispute resolution department, specialising in
civil fraud and commercial litigation, and Sofia is a trainee solicitor.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        05 December 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Appeared in issue: 
                                                    
                                                            December/January 2019 - 04 October 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                Unlocking the crypt: the rise (and rise) of cryptofrauds
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    KeithOliver (+44 (0)207822 7777 keoliver@petersandpeters.co.uk) is Head of International and AmaliaNeenan is a Legal Researcher at Peters & Peters LLP.
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        05 December 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                            December/January 2019 - 04 October 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                Cyber threats, trends and defences
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    Andrew Beckett (+44 (0)20 7029 5156, andrew.beckett@kroll.com) is a managing director and EMEA leader for Kroll’scyber riskpractice (www.kroll.com/en/services/cyber-risk).
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        05 December 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                            December/January 2019 - 04 October 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                Risk-sensitive – fraud awareness and training
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    Dynamic risks, already a tricksychallenge when designing controls, will prove doubly difficult to manage if not
understood or recognisable by those who face them: fraud too often falls into
this class although there are plenty of resources – generic..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        05 December 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                            December/January 2019 - 04 October 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                Ericsson pays more than US$1 billion, enters DPA over US foreign bribery violations
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications group, will pay over US$1 billion as it seeks to draw a line under criminal and civil investigations into breaches of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act between 2000 and 2016.A subsidiary, Ericsson Egypt..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        07 December 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                            February/March 2020 - 07 December 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                Poll shows less perceived corruption in EU than in 2013
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    By Sara Lewis
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        12 December 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                            December/January 2019 - 04 October 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                SFO charges former Serco directors with fraud, follows DPA
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                        
                                    
                                                
                                                    
                                                    
                                                    The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged two former directors of British public services contractor Serco with fraud and false accounting over dishonestly operating an offender tagging contract, after agreeing a deferred prosecution agreement..
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                    Online Published Date: 
                                                    
                                                        19 December 2019
                                                    
                                                
                                                
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                                                            December/January 2019 - 04 October 2019