Bribery and Corruption

As the House of Lords has appointed a committee to examine what it calls confusion surrounding the Bribery Act, it seems that now is the time for the Act’s implications to be properly considered.

https://realbusiness.co.uk/law/2018/08/07/house-of-lords-select-committee-examine-bribery-act/

The UNDP imposed five-year bans on all four SLPs, citing "fraud" or "fraud and collusion" as grounds and listing the formal sanction as "debarment".

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16383510.united-nations-blacklists-scottish-firms-after-international-aid-fraud/

The Independent Office for Police Conduct is probing the Directorate of Professional Stan­dard for “interference in investig­­ations by potentially con­­flicted senior officers”, and other claims.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/two-cops-being-probed-corruption-12986840

Transparency International UK has called for an immediate and thorough government investigation into claims made by a Channel 4 News investigation that a high profile British businessman and a major player in the UK political process paid bribes to secure a mining licence in Lesotho.

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/26429

In routine stories of crime, corruption and unethical trading published in the former Soviet Union over the last two months they all have one thing on common. At their very centre is the alleged abuse of a Scottish limited partnership or SLP, the corporate structure long dubbed “Britain’s home-grown secrecy vehicle”.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16366920.how-britain-enables-routine-everyday-corruption-and-fraud-in-the-ex-ussr/

Excessive court reporting restrictions, inadequate listing information and difficulties in obtaining documents are preventing scrutiny of economic crimes and bribery cases, according to a report by Corruption Watch UK.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/reporting-restrictions-apos-prevent-scrutiny-230120486.html

A UK commercial court has found that the former CEO of a London asset management group and a Swiss banker bribed foreign officials $25 million to cover up a scheme to defraud a Libyan sovereign wealth fund.

https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/article/1171821/two-executives-found-liable-for-libyan-fraud-and-bribery-scheme

Although the overall assessment of the formulation and implementation of the Act is positive, the figures illustrate that its enforcement has, so far, failed to meet these expectations.

https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/insights/blogs/WilmerHale-W-I-R-E-UK/20180702-the-bribery-act-2010-post-legislative-scrutiny

The Serious Fraud Office has commenced criminal proceedings against Unaoil Monaco SAM and Unaoil Ltd as part of an ongoing corruption prosecution.

https://www.sfo.gov.uk/2018/06/26/unaoil-group-companies-summonsed-as-part-of-sfos-ongoing-corruption-investigation/

A company was entitled to bring a claim for damages against a contractor which had paid bribes to its former managing director, regardless of whether it had affirmed its commercial relationship with the briber after the bribery came to light.

https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2018/june/company-entitled-to-damages-despite-affirming-contract-in-bribery-case/