Private Sector

Autonomy’s former chief executive has been charged with fraud in the US in relation to the 2011 sale to Hewlett-Packard.

https://londonlovesbusiness.com/top-tech-boss-charged-with-fraud/

A businessman accused of fraud over a government green energy scheme says he will give away his entire £10m fortune if anyone proves he did anything wrong.

https://stv.tv/news/west-central/1433124-businessman-accused-of-solar-panel-scam-denies-wrongdoing/

Reflections and future predictions on the cake business fraud scandal

https://www.accountancyage.com/2018/11/29/patisserie-valerie-reflections-and-future-predictions-on-the-cake-business-fraud-scandal/

Financial Reporting Council will investigate audit work conducted by Grant Thornton into café chains accounts

https://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/business-news/watchdog-probe-patisserie-holdings-accounts-15443535

In front of the House of Lords committee on the Bribery Act 2010, Leveson strongly promoted the importance of “failure to prevent” style offences in shifting the onus onto the corporate to prove they had adequate procedures in place.

https://blog.macfarlanes.com/post/102f61d/corporates-in-the-dock-is-failure-to-prevent-economic-crime-now-inevitable

The former boss of the Stobart Group has denied improperly taking £5m of "so-called expenses" amid court claims he had his "own interests at heart".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-46180163

The boss of a Bury based personal claims management company, who lived an “extravagant lifestyle”, has been jailed for 21 months after being convicted of fraud.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/personal-injury-cmc-boss-jailed-for-fraud

The chairman of the struggling cake chain has hired a former senior prosecutor at the UK’s Serious Fraud Office as his lawyer as the company faces probe into ‘potentially fraudulent’ accounting irregularities.

https://www.ig.com/uk/news-and-trade-ideas/shares-news/patisserie-valerie-boss-hires-former-top-sfo-investigator-amid-f-181116

Two Black Country brothers who cooked the books of a restaurant in an £800,000 fraud have each been jailed for three years.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2018/11/16/brothers-jailed-for-800000-restaurant-fraud/

Given the potential for large corporate sums of money being held by companies, they are often targeted by scams and fraud. Ahead of International Fraud Awareness Week, 11-18 November 2018, here is a list of the most common

https://londonlovesbusiness.com/seven-scams-that-target-companies-and-directors/