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In our Corporate Crime & Investigations podcast we look to bring you timely and incisive commentary on key developments in the CC&I space. In this third episode we discuss recent activity regarding Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs). We focus specifically on three DPAs secured by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) involving Guralp Systems, Airbus and G4S Care and Justice Services. Read more
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP’s Seventh Annual Corporate Crime & Investigations (“CC&I”) Conference is being held as a Global Conference Series of webinars over the upcoming months. The first webinar took place on 18 June 2020 and covered the topic of “CC&I in the time of Covid-19”. The second took place on 16 July 2020 and covered the topic of “2020 Developments in Anti-Bribery and Corruption and Deferred Prosecution Agreements”. The third took place on 20 August 2020 and covered the topic of “Sanctions developments in a turbulent global environment”.Read more
Welcome to the August 2020 edition of our corporate crime update - our round up of developments in relation to corruption, money laundering, fraud, sanctions and related matters. Read more
The Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal in the case of Barton and Booth v R [2020] EWCA Crim 575 has held that the correct test for dishonesty is that as set out in Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd t/a Crockfords [2017] UKSC 67. Read more
On 17 July 2020, Mr Justice William Davis approved the UK’s eighth deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”) between the UK Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) and G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Limited (“G4S C&J”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of G4S plc. Read more
On 15 July 2020, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published a guidance paper which sets out MAS’ supervisory expectations of sound practices where anti-money laundering/countering financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) control functions are outsourced. Read more
In this blog post, we round-up forthcoming developments in financial services regulation in the UK and at EU and International levels which are coming up in August 2020. Read more
HM Treasury has announced two consultations on possible changes to the UK financial promotions regime: a consultation on limiting the scope of firms that can approve financial promotions of unauthorised persons; and a consultation on extending the financial promotions regime to include unregulated cryptoassets. Read more
On 6 July 2020, the United Kingdom introduced unilateral sanctions against 49 individuals and entities from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Myanmar and North Korea accused of involvement in several high profile human rights violations and abuses. The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 (the “Sanctions Regulations”), made pursuant to the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 ( “SAMLA”), are specifically tailored to address human rights abuses. Read more
