/corporate-crime-uk?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Corporate Crime & Compliance UK Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:53:47 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364768?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364768 The estate and son of Brazil's late "Orange King" argued in a London trial Tuesday that claims by more than 1,400 Brazilian orange farmers over a price-fixing cartel should be halted because they were brought out of time. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:19:14 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364815?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364815 An ophthalmologist cannot pursue the children of a dead wealth manager for assisting in the dissipation of frozen funds, after a judge ruled Tuesday that there is no evidence that they were aware of their father's $14 million fraud. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:58:14 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364765?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364765 A solicitor who is a former political candidate and an accountant charged by the National Crime Agency with money laundering are set to face trial in 2027. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:55:52 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364760?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364760 A London court said Tuesday that it will not decide whether the wife of a former Russian bank executive had committed contempt of court by selling her villa in Bali 10 days before an asset freeze against her was lifted. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:32:24 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364743?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364743 The government unveiled a raft of reforms to financial services regulation on Tuesday as it seeks to encourage investment in the economy, a package that includes streamlined rules for senior managers and easier capital requirements for lenders. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:25:16 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364335?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364335 Property conveyancing is still the biggest money laundering risk in the legal sector, the Solicitors Regulation Authority said Tuesday. Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:36:19 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364206?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364206 A Jordanian lawyer imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates has permanently dropped a Philadelphia civil suit seeking discovery against Dechert LLP's former general counsel in the U.S. over what the law firm's leadership knew of alleged human rights abuses committed by a former partner. Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:57:08 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364141?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364141 An insurance company accused its former chief executive and a director at the start of a London trial on Monday of misappropriating millions of pounds by siphoning money from the business for his own financial benefit. Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:28:07 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2361270?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2361270 The solicitor for a deceased individual's estate has sued a law firm for £423,000 ($568,000), accusing it of using money from the sale of a house from the estate to carry out sham property purchases. Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:51:39 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2364155 The Serious Fraud Office has not pursued any crypto wallet freezing or forfeiture orders since their introduction over a year ago, according to an information request disclosed Monday, a month after the government pledged more in funds for the agency to invest in its investigatory capabilities. Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:05:57 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2358381?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2358381 A business lender has denied working with the now-former chief executive officer of an online pharmacy to take out about £6.1 million ($8.2 million) in unauthorized loans under the company's name without the knowledge of investors or board members. Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:36:20 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2357998?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2357998 Deezer has hit a marketing software business with a claim of almost €12 million ($14 million) at a London court, alleging that the technology company negligently handled users' data that was eventually hacked and sold on the dark web. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:40:27 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363977?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363977 One of two executives of a United Kingdom wine company was extradited to the U.S. and pled not guilty on Friday in Brooklyn federal court to charges that he conned investors into making loans using wine collections as collateral, cheating them out of $99 million. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:09:54 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363685?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363685 A London judge ruled Friday that celebrities suing the publisher of the U.K.'s Daily Mail newspaper for allegedly gathering information about them through unlawful methods cannot prove their individual claims by showing the company's journalists used those methods habitually. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:37:09 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2361444?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2361444 The owner of a green economy investment company has alleged that a human rights advocate defamed the owner in an article that claimed he used his companies to embezzle more than $1 billion into offshore accounts and had bribed high-profile U.S. officials. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:51:19 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363612?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363612 The liquidators of a collapsed Thai lender can be paid from the English assets of two deceased financiers convicted over an embezzlement scheme, after a judge held Friday the funds can go to partially cover a judgment debt totaling £60 million ($81 million). Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:34:05 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363629?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363629 This past week in London has seen HS2 hit with a defamation claim by two ex-employees who blew the whistle on alleged under-reporting of costs, Craig Wright and nChain face legal action brought by its former chief financial officer over a fraud scheme, and pro-footballer Axel Tuanzebe bring a clinical negligence claim against his former club Manchester United F.C. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:20:50 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363615?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363615 A London criminal judge on Friday told defendants charged with gambling offenses over bets on the timing of the previous U.K. general election on Friday that they will have to wait until 2027 at the earliest for their trials. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:28:34 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363611?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2363611 A London appeals court upheld a £15 million ($20.3 million) asset freeze on Friday against the wife of a former insurance company executive who is accused of cashing in on money her husband siphoned off from the business. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:10:34 +0000 /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2360647?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /corporate-crime-uk/articles/2360647 Although the recently enacted Data Use Act’s changes to U.K. law are subtle, its reforms go beyond data protection, including changes that redefine the scope of scientific research and an update that clarifies what constitutes automated decision-making, says James Castro-Edwards at Arnold & Porter.