The Swiss bank’s settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Justice Department, and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was announced just moments before Switzerland’s financial regulator rebuked it for its long-running corporate espionage scandal. The UK and US charges stem from almost $1 billion in bond offerings as well as a […]
Representative Peter DeFazio, who chairs the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said that Boeing senior leaders are responsible for the culture of concealment that led to the 737 MAX crashes and the loss of 346 lives. Former pilot Mark Forkner was set to be arraigned after being indicted by a grand jury in Texas on six […]
The government’s Covid response schemes inadvertently created unprecedented opportunities for fraud – only now is the potential scale of that fraud beginning to come to light. The UK Treasury has launched a remarkable 23,000 inquiries into potentially fraudulent payments made during the pandemic. Last year, HMRC announced that it was investigating 27,000 cases of possible […]
Mark Kenkre, Partner at Keller Lenkner UK, explains how big tech platforms have sped up investment fraud in recent years. Social media companies are coming under pressure to do more to protect users from investment fraud. Action Fraud has reported that £63 million was lost to such crimes in the past year, prompting calls for […]
Juror No 4 told Judge Edward Davila in the US District Court San Jose that if Holmes were found guilty and sent to prison for a “long, long time” she would feel it was her fault. “I’m thinking of all the time she’ll be in jail,” the juror told Davila, according to The Mercury News. […]
Niall Hearty of Rahman Ravelli assesses the arguments made and the issues raised regarding reforming the law on corporate criminal liability. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to remember a time when corporate criminal liability was not on the agenda, or at least up for discussion. The high-profile activities of certain companies and the authorities’ response to […]
Following a years-long extradition saga, Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou travelled home to China on Friday as an agreement with US prosecutors to end the bank fraud case against her was reached. Meng’s detention has long been a point of tension between the US and China. Following the deal, two Canadians, who were arrested […]
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