United Kingdom: Criminal Law

The UK's Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 ("ECCTA") introduces key reforms to improve corporate transparency, prevent the abuse of UK corporate structures and tackle economic crime.

The Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") has released its Business Plan for 2025-26, outlining significant changes and strategic initiatives aimed at combatting serious fraud, bribery, and corruption.

Angelika Hellweger of Rahman Ravelli explains how the Silver Notice system is used to aid the recovery of the proceeds of crime.

The UK's new corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent fraud applies to both domestic and overseas companies with a UK nexus. Companies must implement reasonable fraud prevention procedures to avoid liability.

The UK's Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 introduces a Failure to Prevent Fraud offence, requiring businesses to enhance internal controls and prevent fraud. Key principles include leadership commitment, risk assessment, and leveraging data for detection.

The UK's new "failure to prevent fraud" offence, effective September 2025, holds large organisations liable for fraud by associated persons unless reasonable prevention measures are in place, with global implications.

It might be tempting to imagine that solicitors have many more pressing concerns than the problem of counter-terrorist financing.

Counter-terrorist financing would appear to be the poor cousin of anti-money laundering. It is not uncommon for the two to be lumped together as if they were virtually identical.

On April 13, 2010, President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Somalia" (the "Executive Order") stating that:

On April 9, 2025, a former Russian government minister, and his brother were found guilty of breaching UK financial sanctions under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations ("Russia Regulations")...

Angelika Hellweger of Rahman Ravelli explains how the Silver Notice system is used to aid the recovery of the proceeds of crime.

It is being reported that the jury in the criminal prosecution of designated person Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, his wife Ekaterina Ovsiannikova, and his brother in law Alexei Owsjanikow...