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?
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How Not To Be A Money Launderer, a straightforward guide to detecting and deterring fraud and money laundering in organisations, has been reissued in paperback.
The (no longer Royal) Hong Kong Jockey Club's reputation continues to take a battering as the Independent Commisssion Against Corruption (ICAC) lays further charges over the membership scandal. D...
Governance: UK compulsorily winds up fundraising company for misleading sales scriptThe UK's Insolvency Service has obtained an order winding up Needy Children International Foundation Limited, a charity fundraising company, with offices in Wolverhampton and Manchester.
Governance: directors sued for "wilful blindness"over accounting fraudThe USA's Securities and Exchange Commission has sued a US manufacturer of body armour in relation to accounting fraud. But the special interest lies in the action against three "outside dir...
Ethics: Carbolic Smokeball under the regulatory hammerThe Carbolic Smokeball case is a landmark in legal history. But the USA's SEC wants to overturn it : no "mere sales puff" for public companies.
Ethics: US government sues defence contractor over alleged false claimsThe United States has filed a lawsuit against Kellogg Brown & Root Services (KBR) alleging that the defence contractor broke the False Claims Act, the Justice Department says.
Bribery: longest sentence yet for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act caseCharles Paul Edward Jumet of Fluvanna County, Va., has been sentenced to 87 months in prison for paying bribes to former Panamanian government officials to secure maritime contracts in breach of...
