“The Solo Squid: How to Run a Happy One-Person Business”
“Heir Apparent” – the sixth Sam Plank novel
FREE Official Guide to the Sam Plank Mysteries – sample chapters and glossary
New e-boxset of first three Sam Plank e-books! Click image to buy…
“Faith, Hope and Trickery” – the fifth Sam Plank novel
New piggy in the sty! This one is for UK estate agents
Collection of columns: “Susan in the City: The Cambridge News Years”
“Portraits of Pretence” – the fourth Sam Plank novel
Sam speaks! New audiobook of “Fatal Forgery”
“Worm in the Blossom” – the third Sam Plank novel
AML for NEDs in five editions: Guernsey, Isle of Man, International, Jersey and UK
AML books for UK staff
AML books for Guernsey staff
AML books for Jersey staff
AML books for Gibraltar staff
“The Man in the Canary Waistcoat” – the second Sam Plank novel
“Fatal Forgery” – the first Sam Plank novel
Edward’s adventures now out in 6-part e-format
Another good read
Tag Archives: Serious Organised Crime Agency
Will that be cash, sir?
About three weeks ago Singapore announced that it is going to stop issuing its $10,000 notes because of “the risks associated with large value cash transactions and high-value notes”, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore. However, the notes already … Continue reading
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Tagged AML, banknote, cash, due diligence, financial crime, money laundering, proceeds of crime, Serious Organised Crime Agency, SOCA, tax evasion
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Signs on doors, not jackets
So, after much anticipation, the UK’s National Crime Agency is here – it took up the reins from SOCA (and others) on Monday 7 October. There has been quite a bit written about the NCA’s new responsibilities, but I have … Continue reading
Unseen victims
At the end of the summer, the UK’s Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC – part of SOCA) published “A Baseline Assessment on the Nature and Scale of Human Trafficking in 2011”. (You can download it here.) In it, the UKHTC attempts … Continue reading
Eat your heart out, Mr Trencrom
For those of you who do not share my unceasing passion for “Poldark”, I should perhaps explain that Mr Trencrom runs a major smuggling operation and recruits Ross Poldark (or, more accurately, Ross Poldark’s cellar) to hide Frenchie’s brandy from … Continue reading
Showing some restraint
Recently I have been bathing in Schadenfreude. No, this is not the natural successor to Badedas, or a spa town in Bavaria: from the German for “damage joy”, it is pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. I’m not a … Continue reading
International men of mystery go offline
As you may have read (for instance, here on the Beeb website), the website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency has been taken offline after a cyber-attack. I’m not certain how it all works, but basically you get so many … Continue reading
Using criminal proceeds for good
At a training session in Guernsey this week, someone asked me, “What happens to the money the authorities seize from criminals?” It was an excellent question, and a topic I shall include in future training – pretending that it was … Continue reading
Order, order!
Frustration, irritation, restriction and humiliation. No, this is not my recipe for marital success, but the welcome result of the application of one or more of an array of Orders that the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency now has at … Continue reading
Insatiable blood-sucking monsters
No, I’m not talking about our government. When I first started doing AML training, an older and wiser trainer warned me: “When it comes to case studies, your clients will be insatiable, blood-sucking monsters.” In fact, the vast majority of … Continue reading
They’re creepy and they’re kooky – the Adams family
I remember back in 2005 when the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act came in. We wiped off our quill pens, trimmed the wicks in the lamps and set to work looking at the implications. And one of my very … Continue reading
I hate money laundering 