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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March 18, 2019
SFO Joins Probe Into Failed UK Lender Over Sales Claims
The Serious Fraud Office announced on Monday it has opened an investigation into failed lender London Capital & Finance PLC, which collapsed in January, leaving thousands of customers out of pocket.
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March 18, 2019
Genworth Drags Santander Units Into AXA's £265M PPI Claim
Genworth Financial Inc., which is being sued for nearly £265 million ($351 million) by rival French insurer AXA SA over a missold insurance product, can seek to shift the blame onto two British units of Santander, London’s High Court has said.
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March 18, 2019
SFO Seizes £1.5M From Fugitive Mortgage Fraudster
The Serious Fraud Office has seized more than £1.5 million ($2 million) in illicit funds from a property tycoon wanted in connection with Britain’s biggest ever mortgage con.
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March 15, 2019
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
The last week has seen a commercial fraud claim filed against the founders of now-defunct sports marketing giant MP & Silva, Kuwait's social security agency sue several Swiss banks and its former head, and AXA lodge an action against the company behind Admiral Insurance. Here, Law360 looks at those and other new claims in the U.K.
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March 15, 2019
Ex-RAF Private Who Hacked Payroll Gets 2.5 Years
A London judge on Friday sentenced a former Royal Air Force private to 30 months in prison for hacking into the Ministry of Defence's payroll system, stealing more than £108,000 and then laundering the cash through others, saying the man "abused the considerable position of trust" given to him.
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