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2024 UK Corporate Crime and Civil Fraud: Bribery, Sanctions, Supply Chains and SFO/NCA/OFSI Developments

Published on: 20 December 2024

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In other developments, two ex-executives were partly cleared of bribery allegations and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) struck an eleventh-hour deal with Eurasian Natural Resources Corp (ENRC). A judge also delivered a scathing judgment, concluding a once-favoured investment scheme was nothing more than a £250m Ponzi operation. Law360 sets out the standout corporate crime and civil fraud matters from the last year.

Assange walks free after plea

In June 2024, Julian Assange flew to Australia as a free man after admitting a conspiracy charge brought by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), drawing a line under his ten-year fight to resist extradition to America. The unexpected resolution followed covert talks and a surprise private bail appearance in London. A session before a US federal judge in the Northern Mariana Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, capped a frenetic week. The pact halted the DOJ’s long-running bid to remove Assange from the UK to face trial for leaking national security information sourced from Chelsea Manning, formerly a US Army intelligence analyst. Assange served five years in custody amid prolonged legal battles while his case crawled through successive appeal hearings over many contentious procedural stages and delays...

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