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Corporate Crime & Compliance UK
UK Corporate Crime & Compliance provides breaking news and analysis on enforcement and white collar crime in Europe. Coverage includes internal investigations, whistleblower rights, executive responsibility, tax evasion, criminal market abuse and insider dealing actions, anti-money laundering, bribery, corruption and sanctions enforcement.
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Latest News in Corporate Crime & Compliance UK
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January 22, 2026
UK Trading Co. Escapes £1.5M In Penalties For Tax Scheme
HM Revenue & Customs lacked sufficient evidence to justify more than £1.5 million ($2 million) in penalties on a securities trading company for careless and deliberate inaccuracies on its returns linked to a tax avoidance scheme involving an employee benefit trust, the Upper Tribunal ruled.
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January 22, 2026
Ex-Trading Co. CEO Denies Signing Fake Contract In $19M Trial
The former chief executive of trading technology business Finalto didn't use the company as "a vehicle for fraud" by signing a sham employment contract, he said in evidence at a trial where he and another executive are seeking more than $19 million in unpaid benefits.
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January 22, 2026
Accomplice In Chinese Bitcoin Fraud To Repay £5.6M
A London court on Thursday ordered a convicted money launderer to repay £5.6 million ($7.6 million) for his role in a conspiracy to buy cryptocurrencies using money siphoned off from tens of thousands of Chinese investors.
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January 22, 2026
Judge-Only Trials Won't Ease Case Backlog, Law Society Says
Dropping jury trials for all but the most serious offenses would have "a negligible impact" on the backlog of cases waiting to be heard in the criminal courts and the government should instead invest in the entire justice system, the Law Society said Thursday.
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January 22, 2026
Ethanol Biz Loses Bid To Overturn €48M Price-Fixing Fine
A Swedish ethanol producer failed on Thursday to overturn a €47.7 million ($55.9 million) fine for colluding to maintain high prices by market manipulation after a European appeals court ruled that a competition watchdog did not presume it was guilty.
Areas of Coverage
- ENFORCEMENT & LITIGATION
- Actions involving insider dealing and market abuse
- Commercial fraud litigation
- Bribery, corruption and anti-money laundering matters
- Sanctions violations
- Tax fraud and evasion
- Whistleblower discrimination claims
- Professional disqualifications
- Extradition and unexplained wealth orders
- AGENCIES
- Serious Fraud Office
- Crown Prosecution Service
- National Crime Agency
- Financial Conduct Authority
- European Anti-Fraud Office
- European Securities and Markets Authority
- HM Customs & Revenue
- U.K. Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
- POLICY & REGULATION
- U.K. and European Union regulation and legislation covering criminal and quasi-criminal enforcement powers
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- Judges and court staff