Companies involved in bribery are at risk of being sued by their competitors, following the case of.Jalal Bezee Mejel Al-Gaood & Partner v Innospec Ltd [2014] EWHC 3147.
Innospec had…
Petrobras CEO, Maria das Graças Foster, was forced to step down on Wednesday after an investigation discovered 23bn reais ($8.9bn) of suspect payments, bribes and kickbacks to politicians.
Foster…
On 23 January 2015 the former head of the collapsed hedge fund Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund Ltd was sentenced to a total of 13 years in prison, having been found guilty of eight counts of fraud,…
On 19 January 2015, following a three month trial, Ulf Magnus Michael Peterson was found guilty by a jury of eight counts of fraud, forgery, false accounting and fraudulent trading. Mr Peterson was…
The UK is the first EU member state to implement the EU Directive on Extractive Industries, designed to achieve greater transparency of dealings between those who work in the extractive industries…
Introduction
On 29 October 2019 the International Cricket Council (the “ICC”) banned Bangladesh team captain Shakib Al Hasan (“Mr. Al Hasan”) from all cricket for two years (with one year…