Bribery and Corruption

Microsoft is currently under investigation by the US Department of Justice and the SEC over allegations that the company may have engaged in bribery and corruption as part of its Hungarian sales operation

http://www.itpro.co.uk/policy-legislation/31776/microsoft-accused-of-bribery-and-corruption

Owners of expensive restaurants are being bribed with substantial cash payments by vineyards to stock their wines, a disgruntled sommelier has revealed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6097981/Restaurant-rose-caught-pay-play-scheme-owners-cash-selling-wine.html

Woman let accounts in her name be used to bank the money for her Anglo-Russian sibling

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2018/08/22/corrupt-bankers-sister-admits-role-in-laundering-27m-in-bribes/

The SFO alleges that the two men conspired to corruptly make payments to a public official and employee of the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM).

https://www.sfo.gov.uk/2018/08/17/guralp-systems-founder-and-former-managing-director-charged-with-corruption-over-south-korea-contracts/

Unaoil is one of the biggest investigations ever conducted by the SFO and it has embroiled a number of UK-listed companies, including Rio Tinto.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/08/12/sfo-suspends-lawyer-leading-investigation-unaoil/

As the House of Lords has appointed a committee to examine what it calls confusion surrounding the Bribery Act, it seems that now is the time for the Act’s implications to be properly considered.

https://realbusiness.co.uk/law/2018/08/07/house-of-lords-select-committee-examine-bribery-act/

The UNDP imposed five-year bans on all four SLPs, citing "fraud" or "fraud and collusion" as grounds and listing the formal sanction as "debarment".

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16383510.united-nations-blacklists-scottish-firms-after-international-aid-fraud/

The Independent Office for Police Conduct is probing the Directorate of Professional Stan­dard for “interference in investig­­ations by potentially con­­flicted senior officers”, and other claims.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/two-cops-being-probed-corruption-12986840

Transparency International UK has called for an immediate and thorough government investigation into claims made by a Channel 4 News investigation that a high profile British businessman and a major player in the UK political process paid bribes to secure a mining licence in Lesotho.

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/26429

In routine stories of crime, corruption and unethical trading published in the former Soviet Union over the last two months they all have one thing on common. At their very centre is the alleged abuse of a Scottish limited partnership or SLP, the corporate structure long dubbed “Britain’s home-grown secrecy vehicle”.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16366920.how-britain-enables-routine-everyday-corruption-and-fraud-in-the-ex-ussr/