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Ellen Zimiles on Financial and White Collar Crime

1st February 2017
The impact of the crimes committed by corporations, business and institutes will affect more than a few people and so regulations are expected to be finely tune. Fortunately, this month we speak with an expert in financial crime, Ellen Zimiles, who reveals laws protecting indirect associated individuals in financial crime. She also touches on changes […]
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Thought Leader – Criminal Defence - SPASS - Miguel dos Santos Pereira

12th December 2016
At the beginning of the year, research showed that economic crime has risen from between three to four billion euros per year in Portugal; with the year ending, we ask whether legislation is doing enough to curb this figure. Now with recent regulations applied by the Foreign Tax Compliance Act to administrate cooperation between the […]
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Thought Leader - Fraud and Deceit – Byrne & Partners

21st October 2016
One of the most prominent but less publically acknowledged crimes over the last few decades has been fraud, which in recent years has taken centre stage in large-scale political and financial issues, and been the bane of many nations’ governments, especially as the benefits of certain jurisdictions make it easier to hide wrong-doings and deceive […]
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Ellen Zimiles - "You can’t manage every single person’s behaviour, but you can manage oversight"

5th October 2016
There is an increasing awareness of liability and fault when it comes to an organization, institution or a business falling into financial jeopardy, but it is often unclear who is liable for what, and what protections exist against liability. Is a company guilty of poor management? Should the individuals be held accountable for the fall-shorts […]
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Thought Leader: Menelaos Kyprianou on Fraud and Asset Tracing

5th October 2016
The global nature of today’s economy makes the process of recovering the assets of fraud and other business crimes all the more difficult. The legal benefits provided by different jurisdictions are often used illegitimately by individuals to hide the proceeds of criminal actions, making it more difficult for the victims of fraud to recover their […]
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Brexit: What You Need to Know About Corporate Criminal Law

7th July 2016
The 4th Anti-money Laundering Directive There’s been a significant number of developments in this space in recent months. We’ve posted articles about the 4th Anti-money Laundering Directive, and a series of related issues. UK legislation to implement the Directive via new Money Laundering Regulations should be in place before June 2017, if not before the end of the year. There […]
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