Disclosure failings lie at the heart of the criticism levelled at the SFO by Sir David Calvert-Smith in his independent review into the SFO’s handling of the Unaoil case. The review was commissioned after the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of Ziad Akle and Paul Bond due to the SFO’s improper conduct in engaging […]
The government has published its response to the Treasury Committee’s 2022 report on economic crime. The Committee were “unhappy” with the government’s progress in tackling the “alarming” rise in economic crime. Work being done be government was “not enough or urgent enough to stem the rise, let alone start to bring it under control“. Critical […]
Cryptocurrency fraud Cryptocurrency is nothing new; Bitcoin was first created back in 2009. However the unprecedented rise in its value over the past year has led to increasing numbers of people investing in cryptocurrencies or other ‘crypto-assets’ which in turn has driven a surge in scams. Some are simply Ponzi schemes where investors are persuaded […]
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