Corporate Crime weekly highlights—4 July 2019

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This week’s edition of Corporate Crime highlights includes analysis of the court’s power to block the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia pursuant to an export licence, the upward trend, opportunities and drawbacks in private prosecutions, news that ex-Barclays trader, Philippe Moryoussef, is appealing to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the struggles facing the new EU Public Prosecutor’s Office. A new EU Regulation on market surveillance and compliance of products, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidance on its risk-based anti-money laundering approach and a survey by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on its review of the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015, SI 2015/483 (COMAH) are also considered alongside the announcement of a new deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) between the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Serco Geografix Limited, in respect of fraud and false accounting offences, and a DPA agreed between French oil and gas company TechnipFMC and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in relation to bribery. We also...