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Corporate Crime weekly highlights—4 October 2018

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Published on: 04 October 2018

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This week’s edition of Corporate Crime highlights includes expert analysis of the role and priorities of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), including a renewed focus on unexplained wealth orders (UWOs), together with news that the SFO has issued a civil recovery claim to recover the proceeds of alleged corrupt telecoms deals in Uzbekistan. The examination of the regulation of the state’s investigatory powers by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the government’s Brexit preparations in the remaining six months to exit day are also analysed alongside news that Petrobas will pay $853.2m in penalties to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to end a multibillion-dollar bribery scheme by former company executives and that the SFO will not appeal the Court of Appeal’s privilege ruling. Also covered is a three-month long series of unannounced inspections on the waste and recycling industry by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fine against Tesco Bank for failing to exercise due skill, care...

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