In its most significant enforcement action to date, HM Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (“OFSI”) has imposed a £20.47 million penalty on Standard Chartered Bank (“SCB”) for breaching a prohibition...more
HMRC’s focus on organisations under the Criminal Finances Act 2017 for failure to prevent tax evasion is making steady progress. The revelation, in very broad terms, of the number of investigations and enquires that it is...more
The Department of Justice tweaked its FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy to further incentivize corporations to make voluntary disclosures. These small changes essentially acknowledge that companies in a very early stage of an...more
The government published in May 2019 its responses to two Committee reports on financial crime. First, the House of Commons Treasury Committee on 8 March 2019, published its report on “Economic Crime – Anti-money laundering...more
6/10/2019
/ Aiding and Abetting ,
Anti-Money Laundering ,
Corporate Liability ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Failure to Prevent ,
Financial Crimes ,
Information Reports ,
Internal Controls ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act ,
UK Criminal Finances Act 2017
Anti-Corruption enforcement remained a top priority in France, the UK, and the US in 2018. Join our firm's Global Anti-Corruption Team as they explain and analyze these three countries' anti-corruption enforcement efforts and...more
12/20/2018
/ Alstom ,
Anti-Bribery ,
Anti-Corruption ,
Bribery ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Compliance ,
Cooperation ,
Corruption ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
France ,
KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) ,
Petrobras ,
Risk Management ,
Siemens ,
Teva Pharmaceuticals ,
UK ,
Voluntary Disclosure ,
White Collar Crimes