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Corporate Crime weekly highlights—1 June 2023

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Published on: 01 June 2023

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This week's edition of Corporate Crime weekly highlights includes analysis of why the draft UK fraud offence may not be a game changer, how the US and UK differ on crypto regulation and an update on the hunt for the new Serious Fraud Office (SFO) director. Also included is news that the Criminal Practice Directions 2023 are now in force, the publication of updated guidance on proceedings in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division, a security company fined £2.25m after the death of their employee as well as the latest round-up of prosecution news from the SFO. All this, and more, in this week’s Corporate Crime highlights.

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