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UK directors to confirm internal controls, auditors to seek out fraud – proposals imminent
Online Published Date : 05 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
Directors of UK companies will be personally accountable forthe accuracy of the financial statements under proposed reforms of audit and corporategovernance and reporting, expected to be published next week.The Financial Times reported, on 4..
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True or false? – forensic linguists keep asking
Online Published Date : 05 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
How a subject uses language may conveymuch more than a straight reading of their words, and the ability now, usingartificial intelligence, to process vast numbers of oral and writtencommunications where honesty and deceit are known is set to yield..
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UK SFO loses battle to compel overseas evidence
Online Published Date : 06 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
The UK Supreme Court ruled, on 5 February [2021], that the Serious Fraud Office may not demand evidence held ina foreign jurisdiction from a non-UK person by serving a section 2(3) notice. In R (on the application of KBR, Inc) v Director of the..
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Forex, contracts for difference and spread bet losses: bad luck or victim of a scam?
Online Published Date : 09 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
Paul Barnes (+44 (0)1949 850464, [email protected], www.paulbarnes.org.uk) is a semi-retired professor of finance and accounting. He regularly acts as an expert witness in cases in this area.
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Cum-ex – criminal?
Online Published Date : 11 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
TomMcNeill (+44 (0)20 7430 2277, [email protected])is a Senior Associate at BCL Solicitors LLP.
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Defence firms failing to combat corruption, TI finds
Online Published Date : 18 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
BySara Lewis
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Unentitled – a global look at false claims for Covid-19 support
Online Published Date : 18 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
Exchequers around the worldwent into overdrive in the face of potential mass unemployment and socialunrest as Covid-19 took hold in early 2020. The public funding programmesrushed out to help struggling businesses and households, dispensing as they..
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Limits to extraterritorial impact of the SFO’s document compulsion powers
Online Published Date : 18 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
Kate Meakin (+44 (0)20 7466 2169, [email protected]) is a Partner and Rebecca Heptonstall a trainee solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills.
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Silver lining? - recruitment survey
Online Published Date : 22 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
Covid-19 is spawning fraud, from proliferationin online attacks, reflecting the accelerated shift to remote working, toexploitation of government-backed business support schemes. Professionals whocan tackle the fallout should be in demand: Poorna..
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UK needs holistic public-private cyber-security strategy, says RUSI
Online Published Date : 23 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
By Sara Lewis
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Persons unknown: innovative means of recovery
Online Published Date : 24 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
Neville Gray (+44 121 232 1802, [email protected])is a partner and Gary Orritt (+44 121 232 1541, [email protected])an associate at Eversheds Sutherland.
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UK SFO scores conviction of former SBM executive in Unaoil bribery retrial
Online Published Date : 25 February 2021 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2021 - 28 January 2021
A former senior sales executive with Single Buoy Moorings Inc (SBM) was found guilty, on 24 February [2021], on two counts of conspiracy to make corrupt payments after a retrial at Southwark Crown Court, in London.In the wake of the Second Iraq War,..