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Large firms liable for fraud happening under their watch under new UK laws

The new ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence, which came into effect on Monday, holds large firms to account over their internal anti-fraud measures.

Evening Standard

Rate-rigging convictions of five more bankers may be unsafe, says SFO

Serious Fraud Office has assessed six more cases after supreme court quashed convictions of two traders last month

The Guardian - UK

Banker's fraud convictions over rate rigging 'could be unsafe', officials admit after Supreme Court defeat

The Serious Fraud Office has conceded several rate rigging convictions may be unsafe

Evening Standard

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‘Hopelessly insolvent’: how ‘saviour of steel’ Sanjeev Gupta’s global empire unravelled

This week’s collapse of the tycoon’s Yorkshire operations brought relief for some. It echoes insolvency steps at 15 of his companies

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: oligarchs spied on UK lawyers who ran Serious Fraud Office cases

The Guardian has obtained surveillance images taken by hired spies whose goal is said to have been identifying sources and gaining ‘leverage’

The Guardian - UK

Tom Hayes, the UBS trader who spent 5 years in prison unjustly convicted of rigging interest rates, describes what it’s like to be vindicated

Hayes’ conviction was overturned last week after the U.K. Supreme Court ruled he had not received a fair trial.

Fortune

Passenger Died Onboard International Flight. Now Their Body Is Missing

A passenger who died midflight on a trip from Turkey to the U.S. has gone missing after the plane made an unscheduled stop at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

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City traders’ Libor prosecutions always had a whiff of scapegoating

Case of Tom Hayes and others prompt questions about the Serious Fraud Office and the criminal appeal system

The Guardian - UK

Traders found guilty of rigging interest rates have convictions quashed by Supreme Court

Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo’s convictions are ‘unsafe’, Supreme Court justice rules

The Independent UK

Two former traders have rate rigging convictions quashed at Supreme Court

Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo were jailed for 14 years and four years respectively.

Evening Standard

UK watchdog investigates eight years of Deloitte audits of mining firm Glencore

FRC examines whether accounting firm ‘gave sufficient consideration to risk of non-compliance with laws’

The Guardian - UK

SFO investigates alleged multimillion-pound fraud at collapsed council

Thurrock council invested £100m-plus into solar farms, via a bond scheme sold by Rockfire Investment Finance

The Guardian - UK

Investigation launched into suspected fraud against debt-ridden local council

Thurrock Council was left with huge debts after investing millions in solar farms between 2016 and 2020.

Evening Standard

Man charged over alleged fake plane parts scam which grounded hundreds of flights

Customers included airlines, maintenance providers and parts suppliers

The Independent UK

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UK company allegedly paid $4m in bribes to secure Microsoft data center construction contract

The UK government arrested three people connected to British companies that were involved with Microsoft's data center project in the Netherlands.

The Guardian - UK

Serious Fraud Office makes three arrests after dawn raids in bribery investigation

Individuals at British firm Blu-3 alleged to have paid more than £3m to former associates at Mace Group construction company

Evening Standard

Top US lawyer faces questioning over torture allegations

Arthur Newbold, former general counsel for Dechert, is to be subpoenaed about activities of its ex-head of fraud in London

The Guardian - UK

Asil Nadir obituary

Businessman whose meteoric rise in the 1980s at the head of the Polly Peck empire ended in scandal and prosecution

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Evening Standard

Fraud charges brought against directors of collapsed law firm Axiom Ince

Axiom Ince was shut down in 2023 after an investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

The Independent UK

Hundreds targeted in multimillion-pound bogus timeshare payback scheme

Investigators believe hundreds of people could have been targeted by a scam allegedly run through 19 companies based across the UK.

Evening Standard

Thales denies allegations as fraud office launches probe into suspected bribery

Thales, which employs more than 7,000 workers in the UK, is one of the Government’s key defence contractors.

The Guardian - UK

Defence firm Thales faces bribery and corruption investigation

UK Serious Fraud Office and French equivalent ‘will pursue every avenue’ in allegations against Paris-based company

The National (Scotland)

Major corruption probe launched into Israel-linked arms firm with Scottish factory

AN arms firm which supplies Israel and has a factory in Scotland is the focus of a probe by the Serious Fraud Office ...

Evening Standard

Thales under investigation in suspected bribery and corruption probe

The Serious Fraud Office has launched a joint investigation with French authorities into company, which is one of the UK’s key defence contractors.

The Guardian - UK

Crown court backlog in England and Wales ‘could hit 100,000 without radical overhaul’

Chief inspector raises prospect of judge-only trials and greater use of magistrates to reduce prosecutors’ caseloads

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