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International Tubular Services (ITS), an Aberdeen-based engineering firm specialising in providing equipment to the North Sea oil sector, is the second company in Scotland that has avoided a corporate criminal prosecution under the Bribery Act 2010.

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 (CPA) significantly expands the scope for criminal liability to be attributed to companies. Under section 250 of the CPA....

Employee fraud has been a hot topic this year, for insurers seeking our insight and training.

Welcome to the latest edition of the Crime Briefing which focuses on private prosecutions with articles written by Louise McCullough and Amelia Katz. We hope that you find these articles informative and interesting.

The FBI reports a 45% rise in cryptocurrency-related crime in 2023, with US residents losing over $5.6 billion. Investment fraud, largely involving Bitcoin and Ether, accounted for $3.9 billion of these losses.

In 2018 we saw clients of all sizes, sectors and domicile affected by cyber-security breaches. Perhaps the most prevalent in the commodities and trading sector ...

BCL's David Hardstaff and Rishi Joshi write for LexisNexis discussing the amendments brought by the Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Act 2022 (PCSCA 2022) in the Police...

Niall Hearty of Rahman Ravelli details the bank’s partial settlement of its role in the share trading tax scandal.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has obtained its first ever Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) in relation to a property valued at £1.5m.

Earlier this month, the court approved the SFO's third and largest ever Deferred Prosecution Agreement (‘DPA'), which will require Rolls Royce Plc to pay over £600 million in fines and costs to various agencies.

The FCA wrote to CEOs on 5 March 2024 outlining the common Anti-Money Laundering (AML) control failings they have observed in Annex 1 firms and setting out the actions they require you to take.

The UK is being warned that London will attract more laundered money if any finalised Brexit deal does not include measures for close co-operation with EU authorities.

A speech has been published by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) whereby Stuart Alford QC, SFO Joint Head of Fraud, spoke on enforcement of the Bribery Act 2010.

To what extent, if any, are banks under an investigatory duty to protect their clients from fraud?

It is being reported that the jury in the criminal prosecution of designated person Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, his wife Ekaterina Ovsiannikova, and his brother in law Alexei Owsjanikow...

The new UK Bribery Act 2010 came into force on 1 July 2011 and an individual has now been charged under the Act, the first under the new legislation.

These include Malta – the first European State to be listed. Nicola Sharp, of financial crime specialists Rahman Ravelli, considers the challenges they face.