Private Sector

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) failed to take “reasonable and appropriate” steps to get key documents from Qatar’s U.S. lawyers before a fraud trial of four former Barclays executives, a London criminal court heard on Thursday.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-barclays-qatar/uk-fraud-office-failed-to-get-key-qatar-documents-for-barclays-trial-idUKKCN1QO1YF

LONDON (Reuters) - A former Barclays executive told in-house lawyers he felt sick when he was told the bank could be challenged by criminal authorities over side deals with Qatar during a 2008 emergency fundraising, a London fraud trial heard on Wednesday.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-barclays-qatar/former-barclays-executive-felt-sick-over-2008-qatar-deal-court-hears-idUKKCN1QN2BP

A married couple who defrauded people out of thousands of pounds have been sentenced.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2019/03/05/whitchurch-husband-jailed-for-part-in-kitchen-fraud/

Eight women who scammed the Whitchurch supermarket they worked using coupons have been told to repay more than £16,000 between them.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2019/03/04/shop-workers-in-whitchurch-co-op-fraud-must-repay-16000/

A couple have furiously claimed that a builder they paid £22,000 for an extension has disappeared without trace after building just three walls and leaving them sleeping in their attic for months.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/newsuk/husband-and-heavily-pregnant-wife-are-forced-to-live-in-the-attic-after-paying-%C2%A322000-for-kitchen-extension-only-for-rogue-trader-to-fold-business-leaving-home-exposed-to-the-elements/ar-BBTNp5e?ocid=st

A man has been banned from running a company for eight years after two firms made 221 million nuisance calls.

A man and a woman have been arrested following reports of fraud at a funeral home in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Britain’s corruption watchdog closed the curtains on major probes into Rolls-Royce and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) this morning.

Why do some companies succeed and others fail? Why do some engage in deception and even massive fraud and others stay honest? Do we need regulations to deal with these questions or are shareholders’ market discipline and pressure enough? These are just some of the questions Alexander F. Wagner, Ph.D., is interested in as he tries to discern, via his research, how employees in organizations make their decisions.

https://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4295004226

Warren Buffett once said that “bad things aren’t obvious when times are good”. It is a statement that rings painfully true in the case of Luke Johnson, who was riding high last year with a £250m fortune, when the bad things – an alleged long-term fraud of Patisserie Valerie accounts – were apparently far from obvious.

http://www.cityam.com/273274/luke-johnson-see-his-reputation-recover