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Business Crime: Dealing with Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)

Dealing with politically exposed persons is already a hot potato and it is set to become hotter as financial institutions and regulators digest the recent report from the UK's Financial Services Authority. Nigel Morris-Cotterill, Head, The Anti...



Intellectual Property: how going viral changes legal to illegal with parade parody

When the organisers of Singapore's National Day parade wrote a spoof on the Lady Gaga song "Bad Romance" they did nothing wrong. And they did nothing wrong when they...



Taxation: US IRS issues reminder regarding declaration of offshore holdings

Under the heading "Reminder: Report Certain Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts to Treasury by June 30," the USA's Inland Revenue Service has issued a statement aimed at all US tax payers.



Insolvency: internet auction trading company closed by UK authorities

Trade Suites Limited was incorporated on 28 October 2008 and its registered office is at Hill Dene House, Main Street, Staxton, Scarborough. But it operated its business over the internet with a warehouse in Bridlington, Dorset, at the other end...



Business Crime: Federal Court in Florida orders defendants to pay more than USD17 Million for Committing Fraud

A US Federal Court in Florida has ordered the payment of a penalty of more than USD17 million due to alleged fraud by a company and its officers. But there is one vital point: this was not a criminal trial and so no "crime" is alleged....

Market Abuse: Sydney Company Director appears on market manipulation charges

Mr Hoong Kee Tang, a former director of Wintech Group Limited, which is in administration, has been arrested and charged with market manipulation...



AML/CFT: UK countdown for Bribery Act to come into force

The UK's Bribery Act 2010 comes into force in less than a month. Time to panic?



Fraud: another 419.

Oh, yippee. Someone wants to pay us USD10 million to help them in a money laundering scheme. And yet, he wants us to give him some background on...



Doing Business In.. The Internet: Twitter ordered to hand over account info

In the north-east of England, in a small town called South Shields, a revolution of sorts has begun. The South Tyneside Council (STC), the local...



Governance: HK Jockey Club - riding for a fall

The (no longer Royal) Hong Kong Jockey Club's reputation continues to take a battering as the Independent Commisssion Against Corruption (ICAC) l...

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