AML for Isle of Man NEDs hits the bookshop
AML for Jersey NEDs hits the bookshop
AML for Guernsey NEDs hits the bookshop
AML for UK NEDs hits the bookshop
Edward’s adventures Part 4 now in e-format!
Edward Part 3
Edward Part 2
Edward Part 1
Another good read
Tag Archives: fraud
Off-white collar crime
I’ve never met him, but I think I’m going to like David Green, the incoming Director of the UK’s Serious Fraud Office. In various newspaper interviews last week (such as with the FT and the Telegraph), he sounded very fierce … Continue reading
Posted in Fraud, Money laundering
Tagged corruption, financial crime, fraud, organised crime, Serious Fraud Office, white collar crime
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Do you feel lucky, punk?
(Yes, I know it’s Thursday and I normally post on a Friday, but what with the Easter weekend and all, I thought I couldn’t let you go off hunting eggs without a little thought from me.) A story from Jamaica caught … Continue reading
If only he’d been called Charles Dodgi
(Just before I start – over 6,000 hits on this blog! Woo-hoo!) Anyway, back to the serious matter in hand. There has been such a lot in the news recently about Ponzi schemes, what with Allen Stanford, Kautilya Pruthi and the … Continue reading
Posted in Fraud, Money laundering
Tagged due diligence, financial crime, fraud, money laundering, proceeds of crime, white collar crime
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Keeping it in the family
A man in Colorado has been sent to prison for 405 months (that’s 33 years and eight months, to save you the trouble) for investment fraud and money laundering. Sitting in the cell next to him, so to speak, will … Continue reading
Thai update
In an update to yesterday’s post, it turns out that seventy people were involved in the fraud. In short, someone rang this elderly lady, told her that he was the head of the Thai FIU, and said that she was … Continue reading
No half-measures here
In the immortal words of “Blackadder Goes Forth”, I’ve got to admire your balls, sir. Anyone these days can orchestrate a fraud: what with the Internet giving you access to all the gullible people in the world (of which it … Continue reading
Posted in Organised crime
Tagged financial crime, FIU, fraud, money laundering, white collar crime
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Turning the other cheek
I start this new year in something of a moral quandary – never a comfortable place to be, and particularly not when I have eaten industrial quantities of, well, everything. My dilemma springs from the New Years Honours list. I … Continue reading
Tax cheats get toasted feet
As you may have gathered, I am not fond of criminals. If really pushed, I can occasionally (although rarely) conjure up a scintilla of sympathy for someone whose circumstances have conspired to lead them into a life of crime – … Continue reading
Posted in General thoughts, Money laundering
Tagged asset forfeiture, financial crime, fraud, money laundering, proceeds of crime, tax evasion
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Britain on the fiddle
Last night I settled down with my knitting to watch a recording of a BBC “Panorama” programme called (not at all inflammatorily) “Britain on the Fiddle”. You can watch it yourself here. Apart from the apparently now obligatory documentary technique … Continue reading
So that’s what lawyers are for
I’m so used to RSS feeds and automatic email updates that I sometimes forget to do my own checking of relevant websites, and so an excellent publication by the Serious Fraud Office nearly escaped my notice. “Serious Economic Crime: A … Continue reading
