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Buried deep within the judgment rejecting Unaoil’s judicial review that I talked about in the prior post, Lord Justice Gross makes a very important point, namely that such challenges to Serious Fraud Office investigations should be “very rare.”… Continue Reading
In addition to the IACA’s two-year masters program and its 10-day Summer Academy, IACA offers a series of more specific programs tailored to specialized audiences.
The Legal Incentives for Corporate Integrity Training is a three-day program designed to strengthen corporate integrity and cooperation, focusing on self-reporting and other corporate incentives.… Continue Reading
The B20 Task Force on Improving Transparency and Anti-Corruption’s latest report is out, and the former director of the UK’s Serious Fraud Office told me that there has been some notable changes of detail in it.… Continue Reading
The former director of the UK Serious Fraud Office, Richard Alderman, shared with the FCPA Blog a Preliminary Study (pdf here) conducted by the B20 Task Force on Improving Transparency and Anti-Corruption that focuses on regulatory developments that could enhance the private sector’s role in fighting global corruption.… Continue Reading
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) issued a report in July that set out a ‘catalogue of errors and poor judgement’ by Richard Alderman, the former director of the Serious Fraud Office, for the terms he agreed with the agency’s former chief executive.… Continue Reading
After a brief end-of-the-semester hiatus we’re picking back up our series on Wal-Mart’s victims. And we’re less than half-way through.
I argued in Part VI that we should think of corruption as violating a human right. … Continue Reading
The former director of the U.K. Serious Fraud Office wrote a letter of apology last week to the lawmakers who had criticized his handling of severance payments to at least three SFO staffers.… Continue Reading
Richard Alderman, former director of the U.K. Serious Fraud OfficeA U.K. parliamentary committee criticized former director Richard Alderman’s sloppy handling of exit payments of £15,000 to two former staff but found no intentional wrongdoing.… Continue Reading
A U.K. oversight panel will hold a hearing to investigate huge severance and pension payments from the Serious Fraud Office to its former CEO.
The Commons Public Accounts Committee is examining more than £1 million in separation payments to at least three former staffers, including £422,000 to Philippa Williamson, the SFO’s former chief executive officer.… Continue Reading
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office said yesterday that Director David Green has called for an investigation into huge exit payments made to the former CEO of the agency, calling them an ‘unjustified expenditure.’… Continue Reading
At the September 2010 inauguration of the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said: “The launch of IACA is a milestone in the efforts of the international community to fight corruption.… Continue Reading