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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK Crime and Policing Bill: New Measures To Facilitate Prosecution of Companies and High-Net-Worth Individuals

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Key Points - If the Crime and Policing Bill (CPB) is enacted in current form, it will make it significantly easier for companies to be held liable for criminal offences committed by their senior managers. Coupled with the...more

Cooley LLP

Money Laundering: The UK Supreme Court’s Decision in El-Khouri Changes Scope of Extraterritoriality Under POCA

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In the recent judgment in El-Khouri v. Government of the United States of America, a case concerning the operation of the double criminality rule in the context of extradition, the UK Supreme Court made a seminal ruling on...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

UK Crime Agency Secures Novel Court Ruling for Over £50 Million in Crime-Linked Funds

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On 25 November, the High Court of England and Wales ruled in a significant decision that suspected proceeds of crime linked to unnamed individuals must be transferred to the National Crime Agency (NCA). The funds were held by...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Unexplained Wealth Orders High Court Dismisses First Legal Challenge

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The English High Court has dismissed an application to discharge an "unexplained wealth order" ("UWO") against the wife of the former chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijan....more

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