Fraud Intelligence

By Sara Lewis, in Brussels

Lisa Osofsky, a former US federal prosecutor, who has worked at the FBI and Goldman Sachs, will take up the post of director of the UK Serious Fraud Office on 3 September 2018.Ms Osofsky will replace Mark Thompson, who has been interim director..

Aziz Rahman is founder of Rahman Ravelli, the business crime law firm (www.rahmanravelli.co.uk).

By Keith Nuthall

An established feature of criminal law in the US, deferred prosecution agreements are, increasingly, an option in other Western jurisdictions. Sara Lewis looks at their spread and variation.Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs), which allow..

Nigel Iyer (+ 47 906 54 410 or + 44 7253 570004; nigel.iyer@hibis.com) has over 20 years’ experience investigating and detecting fraud and corruption. A computer scientist and chartered accountant, Nigel soon found his true passion lay in rooting out corruption and fraud. Nigel is also a dramatist, having written a number of films and plays based on his experiences, many of which are used in teaching worldwide. He has written several books and papers, and teaches widely how to defend organisations against the “commercial dark arts”. He is also a fellow of the University of Leicester School of Business.This article, edited by Martin Stevens ACA, was first published in the December 2017 edition of SIRK, the bi-annual magazine of the Institute of Internal Auditors in Norway (http://iia.no/sirk/).

Jessica Parker (+44 (0)20 7353 6000, jp@corkerbinning.com ) is a partner at law firm Corker Binning, where she specialises in criminal and regulatory litigation.

Financial fraud is, too often, a borderless crime. For law enforcers based in sovereign states, this poses challenges; one especially tough nut to crack can be the procedures to extradite suspects to face trial in the country where their alleged..

David Corker (+44 (0)20 7353 6000, dc@corkerbinning.com) is a partner at law firm Corker Binning, which specialises in business crime and fraud, regulatory litigation and general criminal work of all types.

Introduction of beneficial ownership rules and massive dumps of hacked financial data raising transparency in banking and payment systems mean that shell companies are coming under close scrutiny. Used for structuring transactions but otherwise..

John Wilson is the chief executive of Expolink (www.expolink.co.uk), which provides whistleblowing services to organisations in almost every industry and sector. John founded one of the UK’s first whistleblowing services in 2001 and built it to become a leading provider.

By Sara Lewis, in Brussels

Selva Ozelli, CPA is an international tax attorney who frequently writes about tax, legal and accounting issues for Tax Notes, Bloomberg BNA, other publications and the OECD. This article first appeared on The FCPA Blog (www.fcpablog.com)

By Sara Lewis