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1 week ago | 
jdsupra.com | Liam Naidoo |Kevin O'Connor
The UK Home Office has published an updated version of Transparency in Supply Chains (TISC), A Practical Guide which provides guidance on how organisations should “comply with the letter and spirit” of corporate reporting obligations under the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Claire Lipworth |Liam Naidoo |Olga Tocewicz
On 27 June 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in World Uyghur Congress v National Crime Agency [2024] EWCA Civ 715.
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May 8, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Liam Naidoo |Olga Tocewicz |Reuben Vandercruyssen
The Strategy can be found here. It sets out a mission to “find complex financial crime, deliver justice for victims and protect the UK’s reputation as a safe place to do business”. The renewed focus on victims builds on the new Director Nick Ephgrave’s comments in his RUSI speech in February 2024, in which he said that he had a “visceral reaction” whenever he reads a victim statement in relation to the harm caused by financial crime.
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May 8, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Liam Naidoo |Olga Tocewicz |Reuben Vandercruyssen
On 18 April 2024, the SFO announced that it had launched its Strategy 2024-2029, setting out its direction, values, approach and goals over the next five years. A bold, victims-centred approachThe Strategy can be found here. It sets out a mission to “find complex financial crime, deliver justice for victims and protect the UK’s reputation as a safe place to do business”.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Liam Naidoo |Kevin O'Connor |Olga Tocewicz
[co-author: Sarah Tayara]The Environment Agency has launched a new Economic Crime Unit to enhance its fight against financial crimes in the waste management sector. This move aims to bolster the agency's capabilities in conducting financial investigations and tackling money laundering.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Liam Naidoo |Kevin O'Connor |Olga Tocewicz
The Environment Agency has launched a new Economic Crime Unit to enhance its fight against financial crimes in the waste management sector. This move aims to bolster the agency's capabilities in conducting financial investigations and tackling money laundering.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Liam Naidoo |Michael Roberts |Reuben Vandercruyssen
The new Director of the Serious Fraud Office was generous with his time, and candid in setting out the challenges for the agency.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Michael Roberts |Liam Naidoo |Reuben Vandercruyssen
On 13 February 2024, Nick Ephgrave gave his first public speech as Director of the Serious Fraud Office, to a packed room of white collar lawyers and press at the Royal United Services Institute. The new Director was bold and ambitious in setting out his targets for the agency, and said enough to suggest that the SFO may have turned over a new leaf. The new Director of the Serious Fraud Office was generous with his time, and candid in setting out the challenges for the agency.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Sebastian Gräler |Valerie Kenyon |Liam Naidoo
This adds additional layers of compliance on many corporates already facing dramatic changes in the context of supply chain diligence more generally – see Regulation on deforestation-free products (europa.eu). Why non-EU businesses need to take noteThe Deforestation Regulation applies directly to operators and traders established in the EU irrespective of their size. An ‘operator’ is a person who places relevant commodities or products on, or exports them from, the EU market.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Liam Naidoo |Valerie Kenyon |Kevin O'Connor |Sebastian Graeler
A new and expansive regulatory regime to tackle global deforestation is being introduced in the EU by the Deforestation Regulation. The Deforestation Regulation entered into force in June 2023 and will have far-reaching effects both inside and outside the EU. It prohibits certain commodities and derived products from the EU market unless they are “deforestation-free”, and introduces extensive due diligence requirements to ensure that products are deforestation-free.
