On 25 November at a sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court, Alstom Network UK Limited (ANUK) – a subsidiary of French rail conglomerate Alstom – was fined £15m, plus £1.4m in costs, for conspiring to make corrupt...more
12/20/2019
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Bribery ,
Corporate Fines ,
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Criminal Conspiracy ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Internal Investigations ,
Jury Trial ,
Remediation ,
Risk Assessment ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
Subsidiaries ,
Suspensions & Debarments ,
UK
On 28 November 2018, Lisa Osofsky, Head of the UK Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”), delivered the keynote address at the 35th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) in Washington DC. After a...more
On 3 September, Lisa Osofsky gave her inaugural speech as the new Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) to the annual Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime.
After a long period of transition...more
Speaking at the 35th annual Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Robert Buckland QC MP, the Solicitor General for England and Wales, and David Green QC, Director of the SFO, addressed the question, “Preventing...more
9/20/2017
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Corporate Liability ,
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Financial Action Task Force ,
Financial Crimes ,
HM Treasury ,
Law Enforcement ,
Self-Reporting ,
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UK
This article follows on from “Part I: Detecting bribery", which also contains a summary of the background to the OECD’s Phase 4 Report. For completeness, a short background section is repeated here....more
“The UK has made significant improvements to its ability to detect foreign bribery, but could still do more by reforming out-of-date legislation and better utilizing existing resources.”
On 23 March 2017, the...more
4/26/2017
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Anti-Money Laundering ,
Compliance ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Information Reports ,
NGOs ,
OECD ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies
On 27 January, the Divisional Court in R (McKenzie) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office [2016] EWHC 102 (Admin) confirmed the lawfulness of the SFO’s procedures for dealing with material potentially subject to legal...more