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UK 2025 mid-year corporate crime and civil fraud roundup: Supreme Court on rate-rigging, sanctions and extradition; widened s213 liability; FCA and SFO enforcement; Russia sanctions conviction; AML rulings.

Published on: 13 August 2025

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Elsewhere, the UK Supreme Court granted administrators fresh powers to recover proceeds from fraud. In a separate ruling, the court limited the remit and reach of the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Here, Law360 unpacks the biggest corporate crime and civil fraud cases of the past year in detail.

UK Supreme Court overturns traders' rate-rigging convictions

In July 2025, the UK Supreme Court set aside the criminal convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, years after the traders were found guilty of conspiring to manipulate the benchmark interest rates Libor and Euribor. The justices unanimously quashed the former City traders’ convictions after deciding that serious procedural errors by the presiding judges in their trials years earlier had rendered the verdicts unsafe. The landmark ruling follows high-profile legal challenges over several years in which the men argued they were scapegoated amid public anger over banker excesses after the 2008 financial crash. The decision not only overturns two prominent cases prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), but also opens the door for seven other traders convicted of similar offences to clear their names and challenge their convictions...

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