Corporate Crime weekly highlights—23 October 2025
This week's edition of Corporate Crime weekly highlights includes analysis of how private prosecutors face cost-control discipline following the ruling in R v BDI and others, of the UN’s snapback of Iran sanctions and the heightened compliance challenges they pose for international companies, of the FCA becoming the sole regulator of AML/CTF, and of the FCA’s planned tokenisation regime and how it could expose investors to financial criminals in crypto-markets. Also included is news of a consultation extending investigatory powers under POCA 2002 to three public sector organisations, of another consultation seeking views on expanding the EA’s powers to issue faster civil penalties of up to £500,000 against water companies in England that breach environmental rules, of company directors jailed for more than 70 years after they were caught planning a multi-million-pound VAT fraud, and of three companies fined more than £1m for health and safety offences. All this, and more, in this week’s Corporate Crime highlights.