The June 2013 edition of our Corporate Crime Update covers developments in relation to corruption, money laundering, fraud, sanctions and related matters across a number of jurisdictions. For the full update on each jurisdiction, please click on the name of the country. A brief overview of what is covered in each country’s update is set out below.
- UK and France signed up to voluntary extractive industries agreement
- EU sanctions on Syria extended to June 2014
- Security fears over pass 'sold to lobbyist'
- ICSA guidance note on cyber risk
- Lagarde named key witness in French bribery probe
- Disloyal management criminalised in the draft bill of reform of the Spanish Criminal Code
- Judges are able to impose temporary bans on public officers as injunctive relief
- Bank Muscat seeks to recover losses as a result of global cyber fraud
- Sunfeast Infotech Fraud
- Local public official involved in a financial embezzlement case
- Managers of Russian bank involved in bribery
- Vice president of Siberian chemical factory accused of bribery
China, South East Asia & India
- Anti-Corruption Bureau spreads net to catch corrupt - China
- China should institute checks on government power - China
- Former Bank Exec in bribe accusations - India
- MRI International Inc. – Licence Revoked for Breaches of FIEA
- Australian Federal Police redouble efforts in the fight against foreign bribery
- ASIC signals potential focus on complex investment products and technology-based money laundering
- Possible reform of the Australian anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing legislative regime
- New Zealand’s Serious Fraud Office continues to show commitment to pursuing foreign bribery
- Founders of Liberty Reserve money service charged with money laundering
- KPMG auditor guilty of insider dealing
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