Covid has unleashed a scourge of fraud and economic abuse on a global scale. This website will document it and its mutation as the pandemic enters a new phase of management and control. It will also look at how law enforcement handles the scourge and how it seeks to bring …
People’s health is at risk if they are tempted into buying a covid vaccine privately, says OLAF, the EU’s police force. It is investigating the criminal provision of fake or illegally obtained and therefore unreliable Covid vaccines by fraudsters cashing in on Covid panic. Such a fraud affects directly people’s …
Fury over Wirecard AG puts regulators in the frame Published 24-Jun-2020 by Nick Kochan The Collapse of Wirecard has sent German markets and shareholders groups into paroxysms of anger. The much vaunted long-termism of German investors could not be more at variance with the behavior of the Wirecard board. Hence the …
A whistleblower has contacted Hermitage Capital Management, the company of investor Bill Browder, disclosing the details of a full-service money laundering package provided by the Estonian branch of Danske Bank. This whistleblower, whose name is not yet known, provided Hermitage with the details of the full-service package available to Russian …
Market firms are at the frontline of the regulatory battle now being waged by the Financial Services Authority and other enforcement agencies against insider trading. The campaign indicated a growing strictness against the offence, as the agency unsuccessfully attempted to fight off government demands for its closure. Sources in the …
Slow and inadequate sharing of information between financial intelligence units worldwide is undermining money laundering investigations, said Donald Toon, head of the Economic Crime Command and the Cyber Crime Unit at the National Crime Agency. Toon said new powers contained in the Criminal Finances Bill would make it easier for …
Banks encountering suspicious transactions will soon be able to file a collective SuperSAR to the financial intelligence unit at the National Crime Agency. The provisions of the recently published Criminal Finances Bill will give banks greater legal protection when they work together to investigate money trails and to accumulate and …
