Private Sector

In front of the House of Lords committee on the Bribery Act 2010, Leveson strongly promoted the importance of “failure to prevent” style offences in shifting the onus onto the corporate to prove they had adequate procedures in place.

https://blog.macfarlanes.com/post/102f61d/corporates-in-the-dock-is-failure-to-prevent-economic-crime-now-inevitable

The former boss of the Stobart Group has denied improperly taking £5m of "so-called expenses" amid court claims he had his "own interests at heart".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-46180163

The boss of a Bury based personal claims management company, who lived an “extravagant lifestyle”, has been jailed for 21 months after being convicted of fraud.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/personal-injury-cmc-boss-jailed-for-fraud

The chairman of the struggling cake chain has hired a former senior prosecutor at the UK’s Serious Fraud Office as his lawyer as the company faces probe into ‘potentially fraudulent’ accounting irregularities.

https://www.ig.com/uk/news-and-trade-ideas/shares-news/patisserie-valerie-boss-hires-former-top-sfo-investigator-amid-f-181116

Two Black Country brothers who cooked the books of a restaurant in an £800,000 fraud have each been jailed for three years.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2018/11/16/brothers-jailed-for-800000-restaurant-fraud/

Given the potential for large corporate sums of money being held by companies, they are often targeted by scams and fraud. Ahead of International Fraud Awareness Week, 11-18 November 2018, here is a list of the most common

https://londonlovesbusiness.com/seven-scams-that-target-companies-and-directors/

A former steward at Harlescott Social Club in Roseway, admitted fraud and failing to bank money belonging to the club.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2018/10/30/shrewsbury-couple-admit-part-in-78000-social-club-fraud/

A bus company owner and his sons have been sentenced after faking thousands of concessionary bus pass trips so they could fraudulently reclaim the money from the council.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/bus-company-owners-jailed-claiming-thousands-pounds-false-concessionary-journeys

The former chief executive and chief operating officer of collapsed oil firm Afren have been sentenced to 30 years in jail for fraud and money laundering offences committed while in charge of the company, the Serious Fraud Office said.

http://www.cityam.com/267517/two-former-uk-oil-executives-sentenced-30-years-fraud-and

5 ways to help protect against hackers and cyber thieves attempting to find a way to hack into your systems and steal your important information.

http://thefutureofthings.com/12327-5-ways-to-protect-your-small-business-from-online-fraud/