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SFO criticised for 'hollow threats' as FOI request reveals dawn raid freeze

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has carried out no raids in the year since the high-profile arrests of the Tchenguiz brothers. A freedom of information request by Pinsent Masons has revealed that from 2008 to 2010 the SFO conducted around 50 raids per year, but that none have taken place since last March's dawn raid of property belonging to businessmen Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz...
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Covington continues City white-collar crime hiring with new lateral

Covington & Burling has made a second consecutive anti-corruption lateral hire in London, with Steptoe & Johnson partner David Lorello joining the US firm this week (15 May). Lorello, who made partner at Steptoe in 2010, is US-qualified and focuses on US, UK and European regulatory issues.
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Former Fulbright partner handed jail term for stealing from firm

Former Fulbright & Jaworski partner Graham Simkin has been sentenced to 16 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of false accounting and fraud. Simkin, who resigned from the US firm's London office in September 2008, and his wife Zakia Sharif, who was dismissed as an office manager by the firm in the same year, have admitted to stealing as much £100,000 from the firm in false expenses claims. Sharif has also been sentenced to 16 months.
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Jones Day and Covington recruit for London white collar crime teams

Jones Day and Covington & Burling have become the latest US law firms to bolster their white collar investigations practices in London, making hires from the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Baker Botts respectively. Jones Day is bringing in Glyn Powell, who has headed up the fraud business area at the SFO since 2004.
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K&L Gates hires Addleshaws partner for City white collar crime launch

K&L Gates has become the latest US firm to launch a white collar crime and criminal defence practice in London, bringing in Addleshaw Goddard business crime specialist Elizabeth Robertson. Robertson has been a partner with Addleshaws since 2007 and was a member of the national firm's fraud and regulatory team until handing in her notice earlier this month. She specialises in international and domestic corporate crime and regulatory investigations, including corruption and financial services enforcement.
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Former Hogan Lovells partner Grierson charged by police over alleged expenses fraud

Former Hogan Lovells litigation partner Christopher Grierson has been charged by the City of London Police with four counts of false accounting after allegedly defrauding the firm of £1m in false expenses claims. Grierson, who was dismissed from his former firm in May, was charged yesterday (5 December). He is now due to appear before the City of London Magistrates Court on 9 January 2012.
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First Bribery Act sentencing sees former court clerk handed six-year term

A former magistrates' court clerk has become the first person to be sentenced under the UK Bribery Act, after he admitted accepting a £500 bribe to "get rid" of a speeding charge. Munir Patel has been sentenced to six years in prison at Southwark Crown Court today (18 November) after last month pleading guilty to bribery and misconduct in public office during his employment as an administrative clerk at London's Redbridge Magistrates' Court.
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Kingsley Napley among legal line-up on cricket betting scandal

Kingsley Napley is among a raft of law firms to have taken advisory roles relating to cricket's 'spot-fixing' scandal, which has seen three Pakistani internationals handed jail terms. Former captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were jailed on Thursday (4 November) after being convicted of conspiring to bowl deliberate no-balls in a test match against England.
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Work in tandem: why self-reporting requires companies to manage a deft balancing act

Self-reporting requires companies to manage a deft balancing act, says Gibson Dunn's Patrick Doris...
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In depth: White-collar crime

An in-depth look at how City law firms are following the example of US rivals and pushing into white-collar crime, as well as contributed articles from Kingsley Napley, White & Case, Gibson Dunn and Sullivan & Cromwell...
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