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UK’s first DPA ends successfully
Online Published Date : 05 December 2018 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2019 - 01 February 2019
By Sara Lewis
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Tesco executives acquitted in blow to SFO
Online Published Date : 06 December 2018 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2019 - 01 February 2019
Two former Tesco executives were acquitted on 6 December of fraud and false accounting in connection with a UK£250m overstatement of the supermarket group’s profits in 2014.The Court of Appeal backed the finding by trial judge Sir John Joyce that..
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Nearly half believe bribe-payers in their firm could gain personally: survey
Online Published Date : 14 December 2018 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2019 - 01 February 2019
By Sara Lewis
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EU eyes sanctions for human rights abuses and corruption
Online Published Date : 20 December 2018 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2019 - 01 February 2019
The European Union (EU) is considering introducing a Global Human Rights Sanction Regime to freeze assets and ban travel of individuals involved in rights abuses and corruption.Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok tweeted that “the EU decided to further..
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Alstom past executive jailed for bribery to win business in Lithuania
Online Published Date : 21 December 2018 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2019 - 01 February 2019
A former Alstom executive has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison and ordered to pay costs of UK£50,000 after a London court, on 19 December, found him guilty of conspiracy to corrupt for bribing officials in Lithuania to win a..