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Deferred prosecution agreements to be introduced as a bill in the next parliament

Adam Greaves
March 19, 2012 19:12

We attended a seminar on deferred prosecution agreements at the offices of the leading white collar crime barrister set, QEB Hollis Whiteman.  The guest speakers were Her Majesty’s Solicitor-General, Edward Garnier QC, MP and Amy Jeffress, a Department of Justice attaché from the...

BP receives whistleblower letter alleging corruption in its tanker division

Adam Greaves
March 16, 2012 12:51

The Daily Telegraph reported on 15th March that last week the Chief Executive of BP, Robert Dudley, received a letter from a whistleblower describing himself as a BP employee alleging that corruption has been going on at BP over the last five years.  As reported, the allegation centres on the...

"Enforcing the law on fraud and corruption: does self reporting pay?"

Adam Greaves
March 15, 2012 14:07

This was the title of a seminar at which the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, Richard Alderman, spoke at the Said Business School and Oxford University on 6 March 2012. The full text of the speech is here.  Actually the speech contains a review of the SFO’s activities in the area of...

All Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Corruption - A "state of the art" review by the Director of the SFO of anti-corruption enforcement in the UK

Adam Greaves
March 13, 2012 18:26

On Tuesday 28 February 2012 Mr Richard Alderman, the current director of the SFO, delivered a speech to the All Party Parliamentary Group (“APPG”) on anti-corruption.  Mr Alderman’s speech is, overall, very encouraging in that he believes that we in Britain often...

Corruption Investigation into EADS continues - no interference by the Attorney General

Adam Greaves
March 09, 2012 12:27

We have previously posted blogs on this story on 8 June 2011 and 13 October 2011. In the last post we reported that the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, was said to be considering whether the Serious Fraud Office should be permitted to continue to investigate allegations that GPT, a UK subsidiary...

News International - The Leveson Inquiry - Corruption - FCPA - The Serious Fraud Office's Own Problems - A news round-up

Adam Greaves
March 01, 2012 16:17

For those reading this blog site outside the United Kingdom, it may interest you to know that the Leveson Inquiry into culture, practice and ethics of the press rolls on and on.  It is now in its second phase or “module”: “The relationships between the press and police and...

News International - The Leveson Inquiry - Corruption - FCPA - The Serious Fraud Office's Own Problems - A news round-up

Adam Greaves
March 01, 2012 16:17

For those reading this blog site outside the United Kingdom, it may interest you to know that the Leveson Inquiry into culture, practice and ethics of the press rolls on and on.  It is now in its second phase or “module”: “The relationships between the press and police and...

News International - The Leveson Inquiry - Corruption - FCPA - The Serious Fraud Office's Own Problems - A news round-up

Adam Greaves
March 01, 2012 16:17

For those reading this blog site outside the United Kingdom, it may interest you to know that the Leveson Inquiry into culture, practice and ethics of the press rolls on and on.  It is now in its second phase or “module”: “The relationships between the press and police and...

Push back by US business against enforcement of the FCPA

Adam Greaves
February 23, 2012 13:53

It was reported this week that one of the US Department of Justice’s largest ever prosecutions under the FCPA has collapsed during trial.  It was formally dropped on 21 February 2012 at the DOJ’s request.  The prosecution first hit the headlines over two years ago in January...

Director of Public Prosecutions to develop a prosecution policy for UK prosecutors in relation to offences committed by journalists under the Bribery Act and other statutes

Adam Greaves
February 09, 2012 17:21

Today it was reported in the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper that the Director of Public Prosecutions (the DPP), Mr Keir Starmer, is developing an interim policy for prosecutors which will give them guidance as to the factors which they should take into consideration when deciding whether...