Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Tristram Hicks spent a decade on the UK Criminal Finance Board and in operationalcommand of financial investigators. He now teaches and researches.

The art of crime is to distance oneselffrom the offence: if natural persons are largely able to act with impunitythrough legal persons then surely, argues Tristram Hicks, it is time tohold the latter liable as individuals in their own right and punish themaccordingly.