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Corporate Crime weekly highlights—6 February 2025

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Published on: 06 February 2025

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This week's edition of Corporate Crime weekly highlights includes analysis of the significant financial impact that whistleblowing failures have had on the UK, of the SFO getting the go-ahead to proceed with its first ever enforcement of a DPA and of OFSI’s flawed process for approving basic living expenses of sanctioned individuals. Also included is news of the EA launching its National Waste Crime Survey to collect data on the scale and impact of waste crime, of updates to ORR’s RIDDOR guidance and of the FATF’s 2023–24 report which shows significant improvement in combating financial crime. All this, and more, in this week’s Corporate Crime highlights.

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