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Fraud is alive and well in Canada. It is thriving and fraudsters are innovating. This boom in white-collar crime is partly the result of Canada's lack of a uniform regulatory system...

Fraud is alive and well in Canada. It is thriving and fraudsters are innovating. This boom in white-collar crime is partly the result of Canada's lack of a uniform regulatory system...

Recently, the Alberta Court of Appeal released its decision in Toronto-Dominion Bank v. Currie.

Amendments to Canadian anti-bribery legislation drastically increase the Federal Government's ability to lay corruption charges and the penalties for conviction.

Please join us for the second of our series of Coffee Breaks with BLG events – fifteen-minute learning sessions on topics relevant to financial institutions and their legal departments.

Deterrence and denunciation of bribery of foreign public officials were at the fore as a judge sentenced Ottawa businessman Nazir Karigar to three years in jail.

The concern for such a risk is borne out in the request for declaratory relief in Port Capital.

In Re Davis, 2018 BCSECCOM 284, the British Columbia Securities Commission upheld permanent market prohibitions against Mr. Davis who committed fraud on one investor in the aggregate...

On October 31, 2017, certain changes were made to the CFPOA – Canada's international anti-bribery and corruption legislation – to make the payment of "facilitation payments"...

A former chemist in Quebec has learned that failing to cooperate with a regulatory investigation into allegations of serious misconduct will not allow you to escape penalty.

The much-anticipated judgment in R v. Dunn, in which the former CEO, CFO, and Controller of Nortel Networks were prosecuted for fraud in association with inaccuracies in Nortel’s reported financial results, was released on January 12. All three were acquitted.

In an effort to deter and punish white collar crime, the Government of Canada has re-introduced legislation that will provide for tougher sentences for convictions involving fraud.

The scope of people who may be in a special relationship with an issuer is very broad.

According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, 22% of reported fraud cases involve some form of billing scheme where the target organization paid for products or services it had not received.

As Justice Tyndale once stated in a decision rendered by the Quebec Court of Appeal (QCA), "It is common sense that a secret once revealed is a secret no longer."

A Ministry of Labour Inspector was arrested and charged with breach of trust, accepting a benefit from a person having dealings with government, and extortion.

Nazir Karigar was sentenced to three years in prison for agreeing, in his capacity as an agent of a Canadian business, to offer bribes in relation to a security contract.