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Tom Stocker details developments in the law surrounding fraud and related offences.
https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/tom-stocker-the-new-front-in-the-fight-against-corporate-crime
OpenTable is urging UK restaurants and diners to be aware of fraudsters pretending to be employees to con customers into providing their credit card details.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/opentable-scam-uk-diners-conned-into-giving-card-details-to-fraudsters/ar-AA17oEkS
A new offence of failing to prevent “fraud, false accounting or money laundering” is to be introduced into UK law, a senior government minister has confirmed.
https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/failure-to-prevent-fraud-false-accounting-or-money-laundering-to-be-a-uk-criminal-offence
In the House of Commons debate of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill on 25 January 2023[1], Robert Buckland MP proposed an amendment[2] introducing a new criminal corporate offence for failure to prevent fraud, false accounting and money laundering.
https://www.emmlegal.com/publications/the-expansion-of-the-uks-failure-to-prevent-legislation/
Recently proposed amendments will see the biggest change in corporate criminal enforcement since the enactment of the Bribery Act in 2010
https://www.osborneclarke.com/insights/uk-make-failure-prevent-fraud-criminal-offence
Law firms and accountants that fail to do enough to prevent fraud are the target of the UK government’s Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.
https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/new-offence-of-failure-to-prevent-fraud-on-the-horizon
The director of the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has backed plans for a new ‘failure to prevent’ fraud offence, after government ministers today confirmed the offence would make its way on the statute books.
https://www.cityam.com/serious-fraud-office-osofsky-backs-governments-plan-for-new-failure-to-prevent-fraud-offence/
Anti-fraud police boasted of seizing a record £30million from scammer only to hand it back.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/anti-fraud-police-boasted-of-seizing-record-%C2%A330m-from-scammer-but-told-to-hand-it-back/ar-AA16EDOp
Senior Conservatives are pushing for tougher laws to combat fraud and money laundering in what could be another challenge from the Government’s backbenches.
https://www.irvinetimes.com/news/national/23266590.senior-tories-push-tougher-laws-fraud-money-laundering/?ref=twtrec
A fraudster has been sentenced to a further four years in jail after failing to pay a confiscation order made against him.
https://www.ftadviser.com/regulation/2023/01/17/investment-fraudster-receives-four-more-years-in-jail/
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