“The Serious Fraud Office has started a ‘preliminary inquiry’ into American insurance firm AIG’s London operation, founded by Joseph Cassano who spearheaded the group’s ill-fated move into complex debt derivatives.”
The Guardian, 13th February 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A trawlerman who faked his own death and sent an obituary to a magazine to avoid paying fines of up to £1m for flouting fishing regulations is facing jail.”
The Independent, 6th February 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who sued his ex-wife for fraud for letting him believe another man’s child was his daughter is to take his fight to the European courts.”
BBC News, 3rd February 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Fraud investigators were accused yesterday of letting their budgets slide ‘out of control’ after asking ministers for an extra £15 million, the second request in two months.”
The Times, 14th January 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The man behind a project to build a film studio at St Agnes in Cornwall has been ordered to forfeit £100,000 at a court hearing.”
BBC News, 9th January 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Serious Fraud Office is opening an investigation into the UK operations of Bernard Madoff, the disgraced Wall Street trader accused of conning clients out of $50bn (£33bn), it announced today.”
The Guardian, 8th January 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This is the year when the pursuit, exposure and prosecution of fraud will be a very big business story. Already, almost every fraud lawyer in London will say that his or her workload has boomed and that Bernard Madoff has become the poster boy for what will become a substantial global legal industry.”
The Times, 8th January 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
R v Goldshield Group plc and others [2008] UKHL 17; [2008] WLR (D) 388
“An allegation of price fixing carried out in circumstances of secretive and deceptive behaviour was insufficient of itself to found a charge of conspiracy to defraud. It was necessary to isolate and charge specific aggravating elements which would elevate price fixing into an indictable conspiracy to defraud.”
WLR Daily, 16th December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A man who ran a bogus college in a £16m fraud which involved 80,000 students has been jailed for seven years.”
BBC News, 11th December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A ‘senior’ solicitor, who pocketed thousands by claiming for non-existent delays on London Underground, narrowly escaped jail today.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“For a business executive, it is the stuff of nightmares. A seemingly routine payment to a local fixer by a remote subsidiary results, years later, in an investigation by authorities in the company’s home country. The company is forced to spend millions on legal fees, its reputation is tarnished and its share price plummets. Senior managers may even find themselves in court facing criminal charges.”
The Times, 25th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Legal moves to reclaim hundreds of thousands of pounds illegally claimed by the wife of a back-from-the-dead canoeist are due to begin.”
BBC News, 25th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The President of Tajikistan was today (30 October) accused of involvement in a multimillion-pound aluminium fraud that has led to one of the most expensive lawsuits in British history.”
The Times, 30th October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Attorney General welcomes independent report on Fraud Prosecutions Service.”
Attorney General’s Office, 9th October 2008
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
Regina v Mehta; Regina v Sharman; Regina v Reardon; Regina v Ratcliff
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“Money-launderers who offered a service to numerous criminals via bureaux de change or hawala banking were often as culpable as the criminals generating the money, if not more so, and often more culpable than those who handled the proceeds of a particular fraud.”
The Times, 3rd October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“A leading antiterrorist police officer has been jailed for ten months after admitting using his Scotland Yard credit card to take his wife and mistress on luxury holidays.”
The Times, 23rd September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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